 | | | xserver crash, etc. | xserver crash, etc. 2003-04-29 - By anthony baldwin
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>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
>From: anthony baldwin <mrbaldwin@(protected) >
>To: shrike-list@(protected)
>Subject: xserver crash
>Reply-To: shrike-list@(protected)
>
>Uh-oh...
>I logged out to let my sister have the machine for a few minutes
>to check her e-mail and as soon as I did the xserver crashed.
>I have never had this problem. I have only been using linux for about a
>year, so I 'm a little clueless what to do.
>I did try to allow the machine to reconfigure and restart x,
>but it could not.
>I 'm afraid that without the graphical environment I 'm a little lost.
>I tried:
>& XFree86-config
>and a few other variations, but that didn 't work (stop laughing at me).
>So...I suppose I might use my iBook and jump on redhat on freenode
>to get some help, but any suggestions would be most welcomed.
>(Had to boot Yech! windows 98 on this box to send this message. I haven 't booted windows in about 9 months...this sucks.)
>I 'm afraid that I don 't even know where to begin looking to solve this issue, but if you can guide me to ask the right questions, perhaps together we can find the problem.
>I did look at the root mail in Pine and it seemed like it was saying
>there were db4 and dbd3 errors, and, to me this seems odd, maybe a problem with yum? I don 't know what yum has to do with the xserver...
>I just thought yum was a nifty pkg mgr tool. I only downloaded it about a week or two before this upgrade.
>Anyway, I can find my way into pine to check those messages again, but
>I don 't know what to look for or how to interpret most of what is there.
>Any suggestions would be most highly appreciated.
>I 'm just so shocked. The install went great and there have been no xserver issues for the past 3 days (since upgrade).
>I thought this only happened to Debian systems...
>
>tony
>
>
http://www.School-Library.net
>Freedom to Learn!
>
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Check me out.
I, the ranting newbie, the linux yearling with the flowing pen
and bad descriptive habits, have X running again.
I checked the server output to find :
(EE) i810: Failed to laod module "ddc " (module does not exist, 0)
So I looked at XF86Config in Pico and found nothing referring to "ddc "
and whas lost. I got a little help from #xfree86 and determined where
libddc.a was supposed to be...but had disappeared.
I eventually solvd the problem with the RH cds, reloaded X entirely.
But, see, I am not completely helpless.
Anyway, can;t figure out why it was working then the module just disappeared.
Hope my hdd is not going south...Doesn;t seem to be a shrike problem, anyways,
so I 'll find something else to ramble on about soon enough.
tony
>Message: 13
>To: shrike-list@(protected)
>Subject: Re: scrape the possum
>From: Harry Putnam <hgp@(protected) >
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:32:59 -0700
>Reply-To: shrike-list@(protected)
>
>
>I hereby nominate Anthony B for some kind of inovation award for his
>Subject line and description of the problem....!
>
>
Stop it! You 're making me blush,
like a deacon who has lost his drawers
in a poker game...
tony
http://www.School-Library.net
Freedom to Learn!
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