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Re: [paolo.pumilia@est.it: Re: xfree 4.0.2 refuses connection]



Paolo M. Pumilia wrote:

> >From Paolo M. Pumilia, Wed Jan 03, at 22:48:
>  .Hi Branden Robinson,
>  .I have just installed xserver-xfree86 4.0.2 on my debian/linux
>  .system, but now X cannot start at boot. I get no error messages, so
>  .i am not able to figure out what is going wrong.

Anything interesting in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?


> One more observation.
> 
> As the command
> /etc/init.d/xdm start
> is entered by root, from a character terminal, X starts taking
> almost 100 % of CPU time, but no display is used (that is vt7
> is blank)
> As that X process is killed (kill -9), another one starts up
> that is to be killed too, as the former one.

The restarting is normal, xdm restarts the server when it dies.


Michel


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and The DRI Project



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