on Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:14:32AM -0500, Kenneth Jacker (khj@be.cs.appstate.edu) wrote:
> [sarge/testing; 2.6.8-1-686]
>
> I am currently unable to run 2.6.8 and X11 with 'xterm's and other
> graphical applications though I get the 'gdm' initial screen and login.
>
> The exact error message dialog from what appears to be a Gnome
> terminal (though I'm using KDE sessions) says:
>
> There was an error creating the child process for this terminal.
>
> The GUI is pretty much dead ...
>
>
> My hunch is somehow 'udev' stopped working correctly ... maybe borked
> "pseudo terminals"? I say this due to messages I've seen and behavior
> after recovering from a "power fail" a few weeks ago. Then, after
> rebooting, /dev/null's permissions had been changed to 660 causing
> *many* things to break. Also, there were no /dev/pty* created (though
> they were under /.dev). Finally, the XF86Config-4 file was modified.
>
> I'm running OK under a 2.4.x kernel, but want to return to 2.6!
Just adding my $0.02 to this thread.
X used to have a pretty low client limit, I believe this has been raised
more recently. Old limit was somewhere around 128 IIRC.
User limits on memory, processes, and/or open files (X communicates via
sockets) can restrict opening new processes.
Insufficient free memory can have similar impacts.
Peace.
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