[KLUG Members] X crashes

[Tim Gray]

On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:49 am, Bruce Smith wrote:

> 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 sure is dying.  It complains about something in the drakfont directory 
being unreadable.  I've tried "restoring" that directory from my original HD 
with no joy.  

> 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.

Nothing when I started it manually, and /var/log/syslog is what was 
complaining about the drakfont directory I mentioned above.

> > 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, ...).   :-)

I know, I'm cursing myself for relying on on kmail's pop and smtp capabilities 
instead of doing it the "*nix way"...

I've gone back to running from the original HDD.  I suspect that perhaps 
something is quirky about the 45 Gb HD.  It's a WD Caviar and used LBA...  
I'm going to look into potential issues with that, as the partition table 
isn't "clean" showing "free space" between partitions when I didn't put them 
there during setup.zoolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/members.

To the best of my knowledge, the HD is known-good.

-- 
Tim Gray
Engineering Sysadmin
ADAC Plastics, Inc.
"Trying to compete with Linux is like nailing jello to a tree." - Jeff Thomas