Your expectations are way too high. You need to remember that phase2 is just a milestone. On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:38:54AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > attached is the typescript for the 3.3.6 -> v18 upgrade. Unpacking > works. Yeah. Is this sarcastic? Did unpacking work or not? > Problems: > > * xfs > > Starting X font server: xfsusage: /usr/bin/X11/xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] > already running. > > uh? > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -background || echo -n " already running" > > --background (double hyphen) is a start-stop-daemon option, not a xfs > one. Yeah, this was a brainfart. I think need to port forward Topi Miettinen's daemonization patches to xfs from 3.3.6. > [for anyone reading this: change your /etc/fs/config, xfs > segfaults on start up if the path its trying to read doesn't exist -- > will look into it later if noone beats me to it] Well, that's pretty dumb, but not a showstopper for phase2v1. > * xdm > > Starting X display manager: xdm. > > and doesn't start. Starting the xserver manually: > > Could not find config file! > - Tried: > /root/XF86Config > /etc/XF86Config > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.ysabell > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > > my best guess would be to fix the 3.3.6 servers to look in > /etc/X11/XF86Config. Am I missing something obvious here? What does /etc/X11/Xserver say? > Trying to log in: Where from? console? xdm? I thought you said you couldn't get xdm to run. > Aug 30 09:27:27 ysabell PAM_unix[189]: (su) session opened for user postgres by (uid=0) > Aug 30 09:27:44 ysabell PAM_unix[233]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> **unknown** for xdm service > Aug 30 09:28:05 ysabell PAM_unix[221]: (login) session opened for user marcelo by LOGIN(uid=0) > Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell su[252]: + tty2 marcelo-root > Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell PAM_unix[252]: (su) session opened for user root by marcelo(uid=1000) > > sorry, I don't grok PAM and I don't think I can learn it in the five > minutes I have left here. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@debian.org | null word. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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