On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Skip Gaede wrote: > What troubleshooting techniques are available for debugging server crashes on > startup?
Without a writable partition I guess you are going to have to log in remotely, and run under a debugger like gdb (there is a special XFree86 module aware version if you are crashing inside a module), or perhaps strace. > I am using XFree 4.2.0 with the fbdev driver. I can start it without error > when the filesystem is local, or if I put the same filesystem on a server, > mount it RW and chroot to it. If I mount it RO (using tmpfs and symlinks ...) > the driver displays about the top half of the screen and then crashes with no > error indication other than > > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting. The server expects to be able to write into /var/log/ for the log file and it opens a named socket, usually in /tmp/.X11-unix/ It gets unhappy if it can't control the permissions in this directory. I'd try to make both these locations writable, but try to avoid symbolic links, because it checks for those to stop hackers from hijacking these locations. However, it shouldn't crash, so there must be a bug somewhere. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
