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List:       mandrake-cooker-ppc
Subject:    Re: iMac & X
From:       Stew Benedict <sbenedict () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2003-03-19 13:00:29
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, English & Scholastic Consulting wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have an old iMac and need some help getting X running after installing 
> 8.2 and came across some challenges. Please accept my apologies if this 
> isn† the correct forum and redirect me if this place to enquire.
> 
> 
> Had no problem burning the ISOs and going through the installation process. 
> Used expert mode to install some favourites like the text editor ''joe''' 
> and to get enlightenment installed (long term goal) and later MOL along 
> with OpenOffice.
> 
> After installing two times to repeat the problem here is what I did and 
> encountered:
> 1. Set up for X to begin on initial boot up
> 2. While X didn't start, I did see that networking was working fin (i.e. 
> ssh, ftp...)
> 3. I haven't tweeked with X in a long time - so here are the term window's 
> error readings:
> 	INIT: Switching to run level: 3
> 	INIT: Sending process the TERM signal
> 	Bypassing pmud daemon, not a laptop
> 4. I pressed enter here after it didn't show the login prompt
> 5. Login prompt came up
> 6. Messages then were on the screen regarding X:
> 	Fatal server errors: caught signal 11. Server aborting
> 7. Logging in as a user, I typed ''startx'' and got the following revelations:
> 	X IO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server '':0.0'' 
> after 0 request (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 8.  Then it went back to prompt.
> 
> What more I tried - for fun I went into linuxconf and diasabled pmud 
> because it felt good and still no luck. i looked through the archives and 
> tried another person's suggestion for the XFconfig-4 file but it didn't fly 
> as well.   Any tips about how to trouble shoot this one?  I have little 
> experience trouble-shooting X.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Todd Rossman
> class@alkhemy.com
> Riga, Latvia
> 	

Hi Todd.  I read the list also, so you don't need to directly mail me, but
that's fine.  Take a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, there might be some
more info there why your X is dying.  


Stew Benedict

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