I have a funny thing with various kervel versions I boot and the
nvidia driver from nvidia. I sometimes get in this mode.
Try ALT-CTRL BACKSPACE
That tells the X server to restart. It seems that this also stops
respawning when getting ready to start kdm for login. Then you
will have a character login. From there you can run 'XFree86 -configure'
or just edit your config file. Or run X directly from the command line
to see what it is unhappy about.
For a clue as to the problem, look at /var/log/gui. All text written
by the X server is placed here, including why it may not want to start.
On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 05:58:52 -0700 (PST)
"Shawn Tayler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi Guys,
|
| Had a little problem on one of my systems after an Xfree 4.1.0 update.
| As was pointed out to me a while back by a denizen of this list, I had
| reenabled XF 3.3.6 when I redirected X to XF_Mach64. Well I put the
| symlink back to XFree86 and the same respawning problem occured. Then
| somewhere I got off track. I did an install of 4.1.0 over the 4.0.2
| without it working correctly. When I was done (yes I know), the
| respawning problem was still rampant, and no X or KDE. Well somewhere
| along the way, I don't know what I did (Really have tried to figure it
| out), init 5 doesn't seem to try and start anything. There used to be
| a small flurry of activity when going fropm init 3 to 5. There is an
| entry in messages about the change but not much more. When in 5 I can
| start X now, but that is all I get is X. no KDE. I tried KDE & KDE2
| but no go.
|
| Could someone point me to a doc on how the init system and maybe the
| boot sequence is enumerated. Something is amiss and I am running out
| of ideas...
|
| stayler
|
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