The mysterious freeze abd hang could be cos your Network card driver does not support "auto negotiation" well, Youcan either disable auto negotiation in the switch (if you have access) till your transfer is over or update your driver. Dunno abou the X part though :)
Regards Mani ----- Original Message ----- From: "LinuxLingam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-Delhi mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: [ilugd] Xserver screwup after crash > under redhat8, in the middle of some file-transfers over nfs, a > mysterious freeze and hang happened. > > no option but to switch off the pc and to reboot. > > since then, the pc boots fine till the dmesg screenfulls (!), then the > screen goes black as if booting into runlevel 5, and twenty seconds > later falls into runlevel 3, with an error report on font not > initialized; 7100 not found . . . > > figured the x font server must have screwed up. checked all the > sub-directories, everything seemed fine, checked the port the x fonts > server is up and on unix port 7100, did some google-search, and > discovered other people also faced this problem with X at version 4.2.0. > the solution provided is to manually add the font sub-directories into > the XFree86Config file. did so. > > this time, the pc boots and shows the graphical log-in screen. type the > username and password, the screen blanks out again, and again the > graphical login screen displays. > > so run to ctrl+alt+F1 or F2 and log in at the shell with the same > username and password, which works fine. so that means the username, > passwords are not reset or corrupt. > > the log file of X shows no errors or warnings either. > > strange situation. what is the solution? > > ?? > LL > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
