On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:59:00AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Goodness; what a horrible .signature. That would be a real incentive for
> me to find a different employer. :) [Branden: it isn't Craig that you
> need to worry about -- it is RMS! :]
You appear to be blissfully ignorant of certain flamewars between Craig and
myself in the past. All the better for you, probably. :)
> In the meantime.... Otto, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a
> fontpath element that is a unix-domain socket, possibly on port 6601 or
> something similar. If you have one, try commenting it out. That has
> caused problems for many people.
This really shouldn't be a problem anymore. I've had a fix applied for a
few versions and XFree86 included it in 4.0.1g, which will be out shortly
in 4.0.1-9.
> In order to get more information, try looking for /var/log/XFree86*
> files. With luck, it managed to write out as much as possible before
> dying. [Branden, do you know if our good friends at XFree86.org turn off
> buffering for these files? :]
No idea.
> It is possible your USB mouse is giving trouble, but boy I hope that it
> wouldn't cause crashes this severe. <shrug>
The USB gizmos locked up my box hard using kernel 2.2.18pre23. So I turned
USB off in the BIOS.
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