[lug] X problem

[Aaron Hayden]

I had the same problem with my machine.  It turned out that a temp directory
X was writing to was filling up as the window system started.  It was the
common /tmp if I recall, and I had left a program spitting mpeg files into
it.  This might be completely unrelated as the computer you have is brand
new (and I'm no X wizard), but that is my experience.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of PC Drew
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 8:14 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] X problem
>
>
> I just received two machines in the mail today from SGI for the
> Computer & Technology Showcase on Wed. and Thurs. and one of them had
> a problem starting X.
>
> After I boot up and I get the login prompt, the screen flickers about
> 10 times and each time a message comes up saying "it seems like gpm
> was maliciously shutdown previously" and then it says "problem
> starting X, waiting 5 minutes to try again".
>
> Then I log in to the system and type "startx" and a whole bunch of
> errors spew on to the screen (so many that I can't read them all) and
> it says "failed to start X".
>
> Since these are loaner machines, I don't know anything about what type
> of hardware they have, so I fear running Xconfigurator again.  Are
> there any logs for X that I should know about?  I looked through
> /var/log/messages, but there was nothing there.  Any ideas?
>
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