Re: [ilugd] Xserver screwup after crash

2004-01-15 Thread Mani
Message - From: LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux-Delhi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: [ilugd] Xserver screwup after crash under redhat8, in the middle of some file-transfers over nfs, a mysterious freeze and hang happened. no option

[ilugd] Xserver screwup after crash

2004-01-14 Thread LinuxLingam
under redhat8, in the middle of some file-transfers over nfs, a mysterious freeze and hang happened. no option but to switch off the pc and to reboot. since then, the pc boots fine till the dmesg screenfulls (!), then the screen goes black as if booting into runlevel 5, and twenty seconds later

Re: [ilugd] Xserver screwup after crash

2004-01-14 Thread Supreet Sethi
The xfs socket in /tmp has gotten deleted or ownership changed. Either remake the socket in .font-unix file AFAIK or change following things in /etc/X11/fs/config there is tcp no listen or something like that put # in front of it. Restart xfs then in /etc/X11/XF86Config add Fonts