Hello. Daniel Stone:
> Your X installation is fine; whatever you are running under it (GNOME? > KDE? XFce?) is exiting immediately with no feedback. If you're keen, > give this a shot: > XFree86 :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 & sleep 2 && DISPLAY=:0.0 > whatever-you-usually-run > > (Replace 'whatever-you-usually-run' with gnome-session, startkde, or > whatever.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ XFree86 :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 & sleep 2 && DISPLAY=:0.0 gnome-session [1] 3221 Fatal server error: Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old" When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1]+ Exit 1 XFree86 :0 -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 (gnome-session:3227): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > Hopefully you can find some information > this way on why your environment is dying. Hmmm. The catch is I don't think I upgraded anything else X/GNOME-related than the x-server itself today. The other catch, of course, is that the same package configuration works wonders on my laptop (with an Intel i810 graphics card). I guess the information could be that "Cannot move old logfile" line (if it is indeed the fatal error mentioned the line above it), but I can't figure why it can't move the log (chastell is my broken workstation, desaxe is my working laptop): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/ -d drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 384 2004-05-27 19:58 /var/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/log/ -d drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 3584 2004-07-15 21:38 /var/log/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/log/XFree86.0.log* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35569 2004-07-15 21:38 /var/log/XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35569 2004-07-15 21:37 /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/ -d drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2004-05-24 06:53 /var/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/log/ -d drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 2896 2004-07-15 20:54 /var/log/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /var/log/XFree86.0.log* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55138 2004-07-15 22:33 /var/log/XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62392 2004-07-15 15:25 /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old Thanks a lot for your time! Cheers, -- Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) -- .--- http://shot.pl/ --- http://shot.pl/hovercraft/ --- -- - | When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb. | -- Steven M. Haflich `----- ---- --- -- -