x clobbered and won't reinstall
My X has died and won't come back. I had several windows open, making
lyx, running dselect, and a few windows on an alpha. Then I attempted
to try xfishtank, and the display froze. No mouse, no keyboard, no
nothing.
I telnetted to the alpha from another machine, and all of the jobs were
gone, though they still appeared on the linux display.
I telnetted to the linux box, and rebooted. The display hung when
trying to start xdm, but it could still be reached by telnet.
I've removed & reinstalled xbase, xserver-s3, xlib, and xvga16. I then
ran XF86Setup (from xvga16), and reconfigured. It hung starting the
xserver.
The only way I've found to get the console back is to reboot; simply
killing X, which takes all available cycles (runs at just shy of 100%
endlessly).
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this, short of a complete
reinstall?
rick
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble?
e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: