--- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net Llama wrote: > > Greetings, > > I built XFree86-4.2.0 from source this morning. I had been running > > XFree86-4.1.0 for several months. THe build went swimmingly in > about 45 > > minutes. > > However, something isn't quite right somewhere, and i can't figure > out > > why at the moment. If I attempt to switch to runlevel 5 from 3 X > fails > > to start, and i got the ominous error on the console: > > id 'x' respawning too quickly, suspended for 5 minutes > > > > However, if i simply do a 'startx' at the console, X fires up > without a > > single problem for any user (root & others). In fact, i'm typing > this > > in Mozilla on the afflicted box right now. > > > > So, my best guess is that something wacky is going on with gdm. > BTW, > > this is box is running a very heavily altered version of Redhat. > > > > To add a few more data points, I looked in /var/log/XFree86.0.log > and > > there were no errors at all. I looked at /var/log/messages, and > there > > are no clues either. > > > > > > Anyone have any ideas on where I can poke around? > > > > XF86Config-4 or XF86Config
This isn't a Caldera box, its Redhat, and I installed XFree86-4.1.0 from source as well. > Could it be a font problem? Doubtful. Like i said, X fires up and runs just fine with 'startx'. It just bombs when trying to run gdm as it goes to runlevel 5. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
