I have cured this problem although not sure why it happened. The x font server (xfs) was running but with port -1. I am not sure what -1 means but I reckon it must be something like "listen locally". I changed this to port 7100, which my X-win32 server was expecting and added this font server to my X-win32. For some reason, this was causing X to respawn too fast. Changing it back fixed the problem.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tam McLaughlin > Sent: 03 October 2001 15:54 > To: Scottish@Lists. Lug. Org. Uk > Subject: [scottish] X problem: (restarting too fast) > > > I installed mandrake 8.1 and have been playing around with > XFree86-4.1.0 in order to get XDMCP working. I have found that > this installation uses /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to start > the window managers. This file is built from files in /etc/X11/xdm. > This is different from Mandrake 7. > > I finnlly got X-win32 on my winpc to see the x login on the server > but now I seem to have broken X and not sure what exactly I have > done to break it. I can't log into the console but can telnet in. > I get the error msg in /var/log/messages: > > kdm[3518]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly > last message repeated 2 times > kdm[3518]: Display :0 is being disabled (restarting too fast) > > Any ideas what could be causing this? > > /etc/inittab is: > > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
