Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load
Thanks for trying to help me. Yes, I have done a complete power off. I always leave my machine on 24-7, and have not had problems prior to this. (My old SCO-Unix 486 box ran 24-7-365 from 1992 through 1999 and was very rarely shut down and never had a problem.) I have not made any configuration changes in this machine for many months and I have rebooted a few times since the last config change (when I installed win4lin) several months ago. Apparently, the monitor is dead. It is about two years old and has not given me any problems (19 Sylvania F91). So, I took the monitor off of my wife's machine and it works fine with my Windows 98 partition and with the non-X terminals. only F7 does not work. We have very stable and even power here (Arizona) and have had no power outages as far back as I can remember. The fact that everything works fine except X on F7 seems to suggest to me that the problem is not hardware, but something wrong with the X software. When I try to do startx on another shell terminal, I get a message saying X is still running and I can't kill it. How could that be hardware? Joe Original Message: - From: Peter Finderup Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:57:34 +0100 (MET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to kill all related processes and it just respawns. I have rebooted several times by shutdown -r now and by CTRL+ALT+DEL Yes, the process IDs are different, and I have tried killing every applicable process by the most recent process ID numbers, always with the same blacked screen and respawn that locks up. Ok - I initially thought some glitch had happened that tripped the X server and once you got rid of it things would work fine again. Apparently that is not the case :( Did you try a complete power off? (sometimes a reset isn't as complete as a power off is) How long had the machine been on before things went wrong? Could you have done something that changed some configuration files some time ago without restarting X or rebooting? I have seen this happen a couple of times, where a machine seems to be perfectly configured until one tries to restart a service or reboot it whereupon it trips on a broken configuration file :/ Does the monitor work on other machines? If it didn't, that would be a confirmation that something nasty really did happen to the power and that your UPS didn't handle it all too well :/ In that case you might have an acute case of bad hardware on your hand and no amount of reconfiguration and software trickery will fix it :( -Peter mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load
josef: If you try this, please don't delete them. Move them to a separate directory instead so you have a way of getting them back. -Peter On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Yury Tarasievich wrote: This is only guessing, but could you try removing files in your ~ directory which have names like .X... (dot capital X something). Also remove everything having such names in /tmp directory. Of course all this has to be done before attempting to run X. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried all the actions you suggested, with no success. Tried killing 2935 and all other X-related processes, but the screen instantly goes blank and the system just tries to restart all the same processes, causing another lock-up. So, where do I go from here? ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load
Tried all the actions you suggested, with no success. Tried killing 2935 and all other X-related processes, but the screen instantly goes blank and the system just tries to restart all the same processes, causing another lock-up. So, where do I go from here? Original Message: - From: Peter Finderup Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 02:06:43 +0100 (MET) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and F11 displays a graphical display, but F7 where X is supposed to be running is black. When I tried 'startx' on another terminal, I got the error messages shown below. X is still running but hangs somehow. How do I get things cleared out so X will start again? killall X or kill 2935 (or whatever the process id of X is) as root. Or reboot (with ctrl-alt-delete so everything closes down properly). It seems whatever happened blew my primary monitor, also. Yes, apparently. That really boggles me. I have everything on a UPS, so I don't think it was a power spike. Most UPSes are not very good. They do paper over most of the 3rd world power problems you have in the US but not all of them. The better solution is of course to get a good power grid, like we have in the civilized world ;) Please respond with some guidance asap. You could call toll free 800-552-7102. I'm limping on an old system to send this email. No way. If you need it that bad you can call somebody else and pay for customer support. I'm happy to help you by email, though, as long as it all stays on the xfree86 mailing list :) _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running it says here that your old server is still running Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ... but you can't get to it. root 2935 2924 0 14:45 ?00:00:01 /etc/X11/X -deferglyphs 16 -auth Yep, here it is. Hey, isn't there something wrong there? Why has it only used a second of CPU time? -Peter mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
Re: [XFree86] X locked up and now will not load
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to kill all related processes and it just respawns. I have rebooted several times by shutdown -r now and by CTRL+ALT+DEL Yes, the process IDs are different, and I have tried killing every applicable process by the most recent process ID numbers, always with the same blacked screen and respawn that locks up. Ok - I initially thought some glitch had happened that tripped the X server and once you got rid of it things would work fine again. Apparently that is not the case :( Did you try a complete power off? (sometimes a reset isn't as complete as a power off is) How long had the machine been on before things went wrong? Could you have done something that changed some configuration files some time ago without restarting X or rebooting? I have seen this happen a couple of times, where a machine seems to be perfectly configured until one tries to restart a service or reboot it whereupon it trips on a broken configuration file :/ Does the monitor work on other machines? If it didn't, that would be a confirmation that something nasty really did happen to the power and that your UPS didn't handle it all too well :/ In that case you might have an acute case of bad hardware on your hand and no amount of reconfiguration and software trickery will fix it :( -Peter ___ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
