*- Stefan Nobis wrote about "Re: X server problems"
| Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|
| > Could Braden not simply try Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to a non-X virtual
console?
| > I'm too new at Linux to know, but I'd at least try it.
|
| No. If the X-Server isn't configured yet and you start xdm, xdm starts
| the X-Server. The Server exits at once and returns control to xdm
| which then again tries to start the Server and so on. This happens so
| fast that no keystroke will work (i tried this serveral time - no
| way). If you have another computer at hand, connectd per TCP/IP you
| will be able to kill xdm (after login per telnet).
|
| The other solution is to boot in single mode (init mode 1), but that
| method was described already.
|
This behavior is supposed to be controlled by xresources but does not
seem to work. I looked for a bug report but didn't find one. Hmmm,
maybe I will submit one to add to the thousands that are already there
for xbase.
See the man page for xdm.
% man xdm
[snip]
DisplayManager.DISPLAY.openDelay
DisplayManager.DISPLAY.openRepeat
DisplayManager.DISPLAY.openTimeout
DisplayManager.DISPLAY.startAttempts
These numeric resources control the behavior of xdm
when attempting to open intransigent servers.
openDelay is the length of the pause (in seconds)
between successive attempts, openRepeat is the num
ber of attempts to make, openTimeout is the amount
of time to wait while actually attempting the open
(i.e., the maximum time spent in the connect(2)
system call) and startAttempts is the number of
times this entire process is done before giving up
on the server. After openRepeat attempts have been
made, or if openTimeout seconds elapse in any par
ticular attempt, xdm terminates and restarts the
server, attempting to connect again. This process
is repeated startAttempts times, at which point the
display is declared dead and disabled. Although
this behavior may seem arbitrary, it has been
empirically developed and works quite well on most
systems. The default values are 5 for openDelay, 5
for openRepeat, 30 for openTimeout and 4 for star
tAttempts.
[snip]
Brian
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