"Neil L. Roeth" wrote: > I upgraded my Sony Vaio 505VE from slink to potato, and then upgraded > the kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.17. Using potato with 2.0.38 is no > problem, but with 2.2.17 there are a couple of problems, perhaps > related. > > syslog gives me an error at bootup. I can reproduce the error by > executing /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart later. The error is: > syslogd: cannot create /dev/log: Invalid argument
I'm not sure about this one. > X problem - the server does not start - I eventually kill it with > Ctl-Alt-Backspace and see the following: > > _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local > _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for local > _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for local/vaio:0 I had this error recently when using XF86Setup to config a new Pototato installation using 2.1r4 CDs and then using apt to upgrade to potato. I think the XF86Config file has changed format since 2.1 so you might want to check that. Did you use XF86Setup ? If so, you might want to try xf86config instead. This is what I intend to do next. I was able to get rid of the above problem with XF86Setup but X wasn't able to find a valid Mode when doing "X -probeonly". I don't know why but I am going to try xf86config. > The reason I think they might be related is that both are problems > opening sockets. Has anyone seen one or both of these problems? I > can provide more detail if necessary. TIA. I have potato successfully running on a TwinHead 166MHz laptop using kernel 2.2.14. I will try upgrading to 2.2.17 and see what happens. Brendan Simon.
