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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:17:56 +1300 (NZDT)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: David Antliff <david.antliff@gmail.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [wellylug] X windows crashes</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Peter Dawson wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > On issuing a startx from a user account X seems to go away and do </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > it's thang for a normal amount of time and then exits with a message </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > on the console</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> What do you have in your .xinitrc? Are you accidentally starting your </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> window manager with an '&' and no 'wait'? Typically, your .xinitrc </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> would have something like this as the last line:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I looked around my machine (thoroughly) and there is no .xinitrc anywhere on it. However that said, I may be barking up the wrong gumtree by starting X directly instead of using gdm from root...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I get a different sort of problem when starting with gdm, in that X winds up OK and presents a login screen, but, on completing the login correctly, X just sits there with a blank screen and a mouse pointer which responds satisfactorily to mouse movement, but no other action ensues. Clicking the mouse elicits no response regardless of which click or how many.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I notice from the Xorg.0.log that the internal modules are compiled on a 2.6.15 kernel, but I am running a custom 2.6.7 kernel which has satisfactorily supported X in the past, however it hasn't been used for he last two months, & I wonder if something in X has moved up and requires a newer kernel??? (hazards of using Etch, I guess), but a stock 2.6.11 kernel elicits the same behaviour so it would seem to be my Xorg.conf file that is causing the problem...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>I feel somewhat lost here :-( and would appreciate a glimmer of hope in the distance even. My thanks BTW, for the suggestions so far!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Cheers, Peter :-)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>[ETX] aka [End of Message]</FONT>
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