Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:27 pm, Thomas Williams wrote: So what do I do to find the problem? Where do I start? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tom Williams Hi Tom, What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a known problem with it, you should upgrade qt3 and qt3-base. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 13:30:59 up 5:55, 10 users, load average: 1.08, 1.14, 1.24 Quote of the day: Windows - what do you want to crash today? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/e8bnMai9kCFqACoRAjGEAJ4nQYfliXfuiUznZc5gqc79CFrZ/wCgsYR5 C/GB7GQUFAba51YOHzgdpv4= =TdA7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:34:12 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a known problem with it, you should upgrade qt3 and qt3-base. Its an ATi something. I forget offhand exactly what. I'm pretty sure its not an S3 Trio though. Wish it were that siple. After some more experimenting I've found out that its not really getting into KDE. I tried something that was suggested to me some time ago with another problem. That was to rename the .kde directory to something so that it would make a new one. Well, I did that, and it still didn't work and when I checked the directories, there was no .kde directory. I would imagine that if its getting as far as KDE that it would make a new directory and die there or work, but its not doing that. I've also tried deleting any sort of what appears to be a temporary file, tried even deleting the .Xauthority file. Still doesn't work. I tried comparing it to the setup that does work and I haven't found anything significant. Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 02:51, Thomas Williams wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:34:12 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a known problem with it, you should upgrade qt3 and qt3-base. Its an ATi something. I forget offhand exactly what. I'm pretty sure its not an S3 Trio though. Wish it were that siple. After some more experimenting I've found out that its not really getting into KDE. I tried something that was suggested to me some time ago with another problem. That was to rename the .kde directory to something so that it would make a new one. Well, I did that, and it still didn't work and when I checked the directories, there was no .kde directory. I would imagine that if its getting as far as KDE that it would make a new directory and die there or work, but its not doing that. I've also tried deleting any sort of what appears to be a temporary file, tried even deleting the .Xauthority file. Still doesn't work. I tried comparing it to the setup that does work and I haven't found anything significant. Tom Williams can you fix the word wrap? and next time, just my opinion, but instead of 'delete' maybe it might be wiser to move a file (rename it) to something with a number at the end, so instead of 'rm .Xauthority', try 'mv .Xauthority .Xauthority1 and you can rename it back if you need to? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On 02 Oct 2003 07:21:56 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you fix the word wrap? and next time, just my opinion, but instead of 'delete' maybe it might be wiser to move a file (rename it) to something with a number at the end, so instead of 'rm .Xauthority', try 'mv .Xauthority .Xauthority1 and you can rename it back if you need to? The word wrap thing is something that Sylpheed doesn't seem to handle that well, or perhaps I'm just not configuring something, I don't know. I didn't explain that right. I did say delete, but I was moving them. I could have just renamed them, but opted to move them instead. I'd move the .Xauthority file to my user /tmp directory. I also tried .ICEauthority as well, but neither helped. Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:10:39 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The word wrap thing is something that Sylpheed doesn't seem to handle that well, or perhaps I'm just not configuring something, I don't know. Handles it fine: Configureation -- Common Prefs -- Compose -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ When you die, you lose a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:39:59 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Handles it fine: Configureation -- Common Prefs -- Compose On the compose I set the word wrap options. Was that what you was suggesting? Perhaps it will take care of it. Anyone got any suggestions on what is wrong with my X windows setup? Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] waiting for X server to shutdown
OK, here's the problem. I was running Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.5. I had it set up to use the trayicon. The problem was that it wasn't functioning properly. Instead of it showing up in the kicker it was showing up as a small icon on the desktop, yet there was a space for it on the kicker. After launching and shutting down Sylpheed a couple of times the space in the kicker was growing. There was now room for at least 3 icons. So I figured that if I shut down the X server and brought it back up everything would be right. Either that or just simply shut down the kicker and restart it, but I didn't like that idea so I opted for shutting down the X server. So I shut it down and then try to start it back up. I get Waiting for X server to shutdown. I kind of needed to get back into KDE (the WM I'm using) and I switched to root and launched it that way. After all, it would at least tell me where the problem was. It launched, it worked well, but I still had no clue as to what the problem w as. Its obvious that its something written to a file or something in my user space, but what? Anyway, I thought at one point I had it. I shutdown X server in root and tried my idea. Just some temporary files that I found. Something about .X0-lock. Anyway, tried my user launch again, still didn't work. So I tried to get back into KDE via root again. It too now says Waiting for X server to shutdown. What is going on here? I had to use linuxconf to create a new user and launch X server under that before I could actually use it. I'm afraid to shut down again for fear it'll do the same thing. Anyone got any ideas? Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
So I described what all was happening. I got a user setup that won't go into KDE and now I have root not going in as well. I'm running under and alternate user that I set up just for this. Oh a couple of facts I left out before, I'm running Mdk 9.1, whatever the version of X11 and KDE that comes with it. Also, after I couldn't get into KDE from the user login, I rebooted and tried again, didn't help. That was when I tried root and it worked once, but then not again. Can someone tell what is going on? Am I right is there some sort of temporary file that I need to kill in order to get it back up? I feel like I ought to know how to fix this, but its just beyond my fingertips, ya know? Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 23:06:55 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I described what all was happening. I got a user setup that won't go into KDE and now I have root not going in as well. I'm running under and alternate user that I set up just for this. Oh a couple of facts I left out before, I'm running Mdk 9.1, whatever the version of X11 and KDE that comes with it. Also, after I couldn't get into KDE from the user login, I rebooted and tried again, didn't help. That was when I tried root and it worked once, but then not again. Can someone tell what is going on? Am I right is there some sort of temporary file that I need to kill in order to get it back up? I feel like I ought to know how to fix this, but its just beyond my fingertips, ya know? Tom Williams One last thing I wanted to add. There are no errors that I can find. I could probably include the log file from /var/log but I didn't see anything wrong. Also, I get the screen going black and then flashing blue (the background color that I let it default to) and then back to black and then finally back to the console. Now I did have some error messages appearing having to do with a device that it couldn't find. That was a mouse that I'm no longer using and I fixed that by editing the XF86Config file. Coincidently, when I first started using the alternate user account when I'd enter X I'd get a dialog box saying it couldn't start the sound server, something about being unable to access /dev/dsp After correcting the XF86Config file to eliminate the mouse messages, the alternate user in X does have sound. I don't know how fixing a mouse problem could fix the sound, but hey at least that works! So what do I do to find the problem? Where do I start? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tom Williams Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
