Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:22 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On 10/24/07, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If it's Trial3, try this: >>> >>> umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority > > This seems to be related to machines which change their hostname or IP > address after first boot; I'm not sure e

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On 10/24/07, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it's Trial3, try this: > > > > umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority This seems to be related to machines which change their hostname or IP address after first boot; I'm not sure exactly which. Everyone I asked said that there's no way that

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 11:35, Mitch Bradley wrote: > One way to save the mfg data to a file is to boot linux to a shell > prompt and tar up /ofw/mfg-data And how could I "restore" it to another machine? I was looking for a trick involving the rewrite of the specific flash page, either from within OFW or f

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Mitch Bradley
So far the new keyboard descriptions in the manufacturing data are a paper spec only. By that I mean that, as far as I know, the new tags are not present in the pre-build machines, and the OS doesn't look for them. (That is not quite true for OFW; it will use the new KA tag if it exists). One

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 10:56, John Watlington wrote: >> I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What are the relevant >> hardware changes? > > None. Testers in Cambridge should be seeing the same problems! > The only difference should be that these machines didn't go through > the full "write manufacturing data

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > On 10/24/07 04:28, John Watlington wrote: >> We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. >> And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to >> init level 3. > > I've never seen a C2 machine yet.

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Stone
> If it's Trial3, try this: > > umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority > > Nobody I asked really understood why, but it fixes a lot of > strange "X not starting" problems people reported to me by > random people. The reason why it fixes things is that there are many file-system operations that plain fa

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
On 10/24/07 04:28, John Watlington wrote: > We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. > And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to init > level 3. I've never seen a C2 machine yet. What are the relevant hardware changes? And, what build are you

Re: X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread Jim Gettys
Please send the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. Thanks, - Jim On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 04:28 -0400, John Watlington wrote: > We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. > And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switc

X won't come up on C2

2007-10-24 Thread John Watlington
We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines. And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to init level 3. The error message spewed out on the console is: AUDIT: : : X: client 1 rejected from local host (uid 500) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by