[KLUG Members] X crashes

[Bruce Smith]

> > It appears your font server is not running.  Start it/fix it.
> 
> Yes, i've been looking at that.
> 
> # service xfs status
> xfs dead but pid file exists
> #
> 
> arooah?  The above cmd was after a service stop/start command. 
> The service is reported as having strted ok by the 'service xfs start p' cmd.
> 
> So either something is stuck in /proc (is that extremely unlikely normally?)
> or the xfs is dying on start.

I'd guess that xfs is dying for some reason.  You can manually remove
the pid file, if that is required to start it again.  Those file
normally live in the directory:  /var/run/

It'd be interesting to find what error message (if any) xfs is reporting
when it dies.  I'm not a Mandrake user, so I don't know where those
messages might be redirected to.  Check all the log files (/var/log/)
after you start xfs, or you could try running xfs from the shell prompt
on a console to see if it spits out any useful errors.

> plz excuse the brevity and terseness, typing on zaurus is less than enjoyable.

You should be able to get to a console window, and there are plenty of
command line mail clients for Linux (mutt, pine, ...).   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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