Re: [SLUG] Help, X has died

[Rick Moen <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

begin Laurie Savage quotation:

> Using Mandrake 8, XFree86 4.0 init 5 startup
> 
> The X server tries to start but does not succeed. Crashes back to text
> login.

1.  Login.  Do "ps auxw | more" to make sure no X processes are running.  
    If any are, kill them.

2.  Do "X > xerrors 2>&1" to capture to logfile "xerrors" the stdout and 
    stderr data streams produced by an attempt to start X (in this case,
    starting just the bare X server).  Presumably, it will likewise 
    crash back to a console prompt, but now you'll have pretty complete
    diagnostic information on the X startup attempt.

3.  Review the contents of xerrors.  If it's non-obvious what's wrong,
    post any half-way relevant portions of the file here, in a follow-up
    post.

> I don't know how to save any messages from Xserver to send error messages
> to the group.

But now you do.  ;->

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