I set up a bunch of IBM X330 servers as a cluster. Installing a master node and client node straight from the RedHat CD without problems with X or anything else. I cloned these by imaging the harddisks using "dd" for each partition and the boot block, then editing /etc/sysconfig/networks and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to change the network IP and hostname.
The cloned machines boot to level 3 but repeatedly fail starting X. Looking at Xfree86.0.log in /var/log it seems xdm wont start, I get messages: "Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" xfs runs fine as "xfs &" from a root prompt but when I do "xfs -droppriv" I get: _FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running xfs error: Cannot establish any listening sockets Aborted But xfs is >>>definitely<<< not running! I am guessing somewhere there is a leftover xfs.pid file or something similar, maybe under /proc somewhere that is spoofing the cloned systems into thinking that xfs is running and thereby presenting its startup. Ken _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
