Re: X Display unable to start under Fedora Core 2
From: noi (noi_at_siam.com)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:47:20 GMT
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:38:21 -0700, John McFee thoughtfully wrote:
> I just yum upgraded my 5 year old Dell 40 MHz computer (ATI Mack 64
> graphics card, Dell 1226H 19" CRT) from Fedora Core 1 to FC2. (I have yum
> upgraded other computers in the last while from FC1 to FC2 with no
> trouble.) The upgrade went fine and everything worked OK for the next 2
> days (shut down and started up several times, operated under Gnome
> desktop, no problems).
>
> Yesterday, on booting up, all was normal until it got to the part where it
> should generate the login gui screen. The screen went blue (with the hour
> glass turning), then switched back to the login text screen, then back to
> the blue screen, etc. This continued for six tries and then a screen
> appeared that said:
> "The display server has been shutdown about 6 times in the last 90 sec, it
> is likely that something bad is going on. I wait 2 minutes before trying
> again on display :0."
>
> This whole process (flashing attempts at X windows, then error message)
> kept repeating roughly every 2 minutes.
>
> In between error messages, I logged in as root in the text mode and
> loooked at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. It had been generated by
> system-display-config and looked fine. I then looked at the output of
> /var/log/xorg.0.log. It looked normal, no errors or warnings until the
> very last lines:
>
> Right after loading module pcidata (which went OK), it said:
>
> Fatal Sever Error
> xf 860 Open Console: cannot open virtual console 7.
>
> I logged out and shutdown, then rebooted under the old FC1 kernel
> (2.4.22.2194.npt1) and everything was just fine! Booting under my new FC2
> kernel (2.6.8-1.521) gives the same problem.
>
> I am stumped. This occurred well after the upgrade, as though a file got
> clobbered, but I have no idea what. Hardware must be fine, since it works
> under the old kernel. And for 2 days, it worked under the new kernel. Any
> help is really appreciated.
>
> John McFee
I didn't have a problem with multiple attempts to load X. There were
times that .Xauthority ownership changed while sudoing k3b to root
which prevented X from starting. I used sudo in a Failsafe session to
change ownership back to user.
Also suggest googling the complete error message if you diff Xorg.0.log to
Xorg.0.log.old and there's no difference.
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