Hi Dennis (and others),
I have had similar problems with X apps on SuSE with KDE.
Same recourse as you had to do (reboot).
It was driving me nuts so I first disabled X from starting automatically.
For SuSE this meant changing the default runlevel to 2 in /etc/inittab;
not sure what it is for RedHat (3?).
I login and then startx
I don't leave X running for long periods unsupervised.
I had noticed font errors in my (user) X .errors file (forget its name)and
have gradually got rid of them by going into the window manager settings
(KDE in this case) and re-did them all so that the fonts chosen were from a
family that actually existed on the machine.
I also had to rebuild the font directory (just followed the instructions in
the error messages).
Now the only things left are to figure our why StarOffice crashes the whole
machine (could be an X bug again but I haven't checked that I have the exact
shared libraries that it needs).
Often I think it would be be better if X components ran as a user (say, Xd)
which only had the ability to control X resources, ie not as root.
This is not just a Linux distro whinge; other *nix run X as root but they
get away with it because they are for specific hardware. Maybe only SCO
might be the ones that are in the same boat as Linux in this respect.
___________________________________________
Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2000 20:19
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] What to do
I was experimenting with VMWare in order to run Windows NT on my Linux
box. Things went very well for a few days then, all of a sudden, the
system froze and I tried to do the ctrl-alt-escape to get control back
from the virtual host and it wouldn't work. I did everything to regain
control, ctrl-F1, F2, etc. to get to another console didn't work.
Ctrl-alt-F8, F7 etc got me nothing. My only recourse was to reboot.
After I rebooted, everything came up normally except X-windows. My system
starts gdm but all I get now is a grey screen without the Redhat logo nor
login window. If I kill off all the X-windows stuff then run startx, I'm
okay. Can someone point me in the right direction so I can try to fix
this?
Regards,
Dennis
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