Don Krause wrote: > Twice now over the past year, I've had something edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file without user intervention. > > The machine in question is a 3 headed X-Terminal that displays the > accelerator control system application for a medical proton accelerator, and > operated by staff who do NOT have root or root like access (sudo) on the > X-Term, as once it's configured, it should never need changing. It lives on a > private network (Network? Actually a crossover cable to the Sun box in a > protected environment) with no reachable route even from within the > organization. > > Out of the blue, on 2 occasions now, an entry for 1 of the video cards (out > of 3) has changed it's driver entry from "nvidia" to "nv". This, of course, > prevents X from starting. > > This morning, while of the phone with the field service tech, I corrected the > entry, set the xorg.conf file to 444, and when they rebooted the X-Term, it > again changed the entry from "nvidia" to "nv". > > Again, I corrected the xorg.conf file, reset it to 444, and rebooted the > X-Term again, and it started fine, no changes. > > This box does get rebooted quite frequently, yet the unexpected change has > only happened 3 time total, once 6 months and probably 30+ reboots ago, and > again twice this morning on back to back reboots. (Yet the third and forth > reboots did NOT change the file) > > I've never seen this happen before, and am at a bit of a loss wondering where > to look. > > CentOS 5.3, 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 #1 > The X-Term is diskless, boots via PXE from a Solaris 10 box. Diskless boot > configured using stock Cent tools (system-config-diskless and friends) > > Any suggestion where to look would be appreciated. >
Had any updates to xorg-x11-server-Xorg recently on the affected systems as that can make changes to xorg.conf? Also, how are you handling nvidia.ko over kernel updates? Could a reboot have booted to a new kernel, xorg failed due to nvidia.ko not matching the present kernel, and reconfigured to use nv? Using the elrepo kmod driver or rpmforge dkms nvidia driver would alleviate this. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
