Is this glitch in XFree or LTSP?
Greetings all. I've "emerged" the current LTSP package for Gentoo (it's "ltsp-core-3.0.7-r1") and my LTSP thin client starts up fine in runlevel 3 but not in runlevel 5, the GUI mode. The error message printed to the console is simply "Fatal server error: Cannot open log file '/var/log/XFree86.0.log'". Please help me figure out if the problem is related to my LTSP installation or to some X config setting.
The 36 steps described in JAM's "Chapter 1. Theory of operation" are executing although the transient files and directories created in /tmp as listed in step 29 are somewhat different - maybe the doc is a little outdated? Here is the list created in my client's /tmp with empty directories denoted by a trailing "(0)":
XF86Config
compiled (0)
hosts
hosts,equiv
lost+found (0)
mnt (0)
mtab (0)
resolv.conf
start_ws
syslog.conf
var/X11R6/xdb/compiled --> /tmp/compiled
var/lib/xdb (0)
var/lock/subsys (0)
var/log (0)
var/run (0)
# df -h shows that the ramdisk is being created:
rootfs 1.5G 248.1M 1.2G 17% /
/dev/root 1.9M 1.8M 146K 93% /oldroot
192.168.0.254:/opt/ltsp/i386 1.5G 248M 1.2G 17% /
/dev/ram1 1003K 45K 958K 4% /tmp
I've successfully run through all of the "Chapter 6. Troubleshooting" but the difficulty arises in section 6.5 - obviously the Xserver is not starting because I'm returned back to the bash prompt with the above-mentioned error message. Yet, the display manager is running:
# netstat -ap | grep xdmcp
udp 0 0 *:xdmcp *:* 1515/kdm
I've read previous postings complaining about the "Cannot open log file '/var/log/XFree86.0.log'" message but I haven't seen any resolution of it. Very mysterious. And frustrating!
Thanks for any help.
js
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