X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to init level 3. The error message spewed out on the console is: AUDIT: date time : pid: X: client 1 rejected from local host (uid 500) Xlib: connection to

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Gettys
Please send the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. Thanks, - Jim On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 04:28 -0400, John Watlington wrote: We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 04:28, John Watlington wrote: We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to init level 3. I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What are the relevant hardware changes? And, what build are you

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: On 10/24/07 04:28, John Watlington wrote: We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to init level 3. I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 10:56, John Watlington wrote: I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What are the relevant hardware changes? None. Testers in Cambridge should be seeing the same problems! The only difference should be that these machines didn't go through the full write manufacturing data

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
So far the new keyboard descriptions in the manufacturing data are a paper spec only. By that I mean that, as far as I know, the new tags are not present in the pre-build machines, and the OS doesn't look for them. (That is not quite true for OFW; it will use the new KA tag if it exists). One

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 11:35, Mitch Bradley wrote: One way to save the mfg data to a file is to boot linux to a shell prompt and tar up /ofw/mfg-data And how could I restore it to another machine? I was looking for a trick involving the rewrite of the specific flash page, either from within OFW or from

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 10/24/07, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's Trial3, try this: umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority This seems to be related to machines which change their hostname or IP address after first boot; I'm not sure exactly which. Everyone I asked said that there's no way that the

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:22 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On 10/24/07, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's Trial3, try this: umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority This seems to be related to machines which change their hostname or IP address after first boot; I'm not sure exactly which.