Re: [SLUG] Help, X has died

[Laurie Savage <savage99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I'll save this for next time.

Rick Moen wrote:

> 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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