Re: X config damaged by power failure
- From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:07:55 -0430
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:08 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 04/30/2008 03:32 PM:
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 16:16 +0000, g wrote:
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of times that i have lost a file from power loss or lockup and hard reset, was
because it was open. i would not think that x11 would hold a config file open
when it only needs to read it. then again.
had you made any changes to your x11 setup you should have at least had .old
file.
I didn't have a previous xorg.conf file. That's the whole issue: X
worked perfectly well without it, until the power fail, then it didn't
work (until I ran system-config-display and created an xorg.conf file).
Unless the video equipment (card and monitor) have lost their minds, then the
xorg.conf probably still should not be needed.
BTW to answer your earlier question, xorg can ask the card and monitor what
they support (assuming they are new enough), and this is why xorg.conf is not
needed IF you don't want to tweak the system to use less than the maximum
capability that the combination of the monitory and card support.
Does gdm come up and display correctly?
if so I would suspect one of those Desktop Environments is tweaking with the
settings, and try creating a fresh new user and login as that user and see if
everything is OK.
Just to test, I moved the xorg.cong to one side and restarted X. This
time it worked correctly, so The Answer Must Remain a Mystery (cue
spooky music).
On the UPS front, I would suggest checking[1] to see if some of the plugs on
the UPS are NOT battery backed and if the computer CPU happens to be plugged
into one of those. BTW I hope that printer is an inkjet...A laser on an UPS
will likely kill(destroy) the UPS's battery.
[1] I know this is obvious, but I have missed it in the past.
What? You think I'm some kind of idiot? Of course I've checked this.
I'll just check again ... oh wait ...
I'll just go and stand in the corner now.
poc
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