Re: [dapper] x-windows broken again

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:50, Frank McCormick wrote:
> gpgkeys: key F11BEBDD39F6D3B0 not found on keyserver
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:17:38 -0500
>
> Frank McCormick <fmccormick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:21:05 +1100
> >
> > James Gray <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > After the debugging is finished, you might want to change that
> > > syslog.conf line to this instead:
> > >
> > > # Log *everything* to tty12
> > > *.* /dev/tty12
> > >
> > > ...now if you want a screenful of the most recent messages,
> > > "CTL+ALT+F12" and voila! Handy for a lot things :) (ALT+F7 to get
> > > back to X, or ALT+F[1-6] for the terminal sessions)
> >
> > Tried it...but got nothing which might solve the problem. Just
> > a bunch of Pam error messages...and the X keeps crashing script
> > being run. It also doesn't provide anything..except a blank screen
> > Here's the log:
>
> /snipped/
>
> Got X back anyway. Symlinked /usr/bin/Xorg to /usr/bin/X . Couldn't
> do it before because there was a file in /usr/bin called X. Don't know
> what it is/was but renamed it to Xold and then created the symlink.
> However I think Alsa is borked as well as I get a bunch of error messages
> on boot. More things to track down.
>
> BTW I implemented your /dev/tty12 suggestion, nice!!

Ah - ok then, ignore the message I just posted :P E-mail delays suck.

Glad you like the /dev/tty12 thing - I use it a LOT. It's handy to debug
those annoying things that would ordinarily have you hunting
through /var/log/* for one line of info...or just CTL+ALT+F12.

Cheers,

James
--
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
-- Plato

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