Your expectations are way too high. You need to remember that phase2 is
just a milestone.
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:38:54AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached is the typescript for the 3.3.6 -> v18 upgrade. Unpacking
> works. Yeah.
Is this sarcastic? Did unpacking work or not?
> Problems:
>
> * xfs
>
> Starting X font server: xfsusage: /usr/bin/X11/xfs [-config config_file] [-port
>tcp_port]
> already running.
>
> uh?
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -background
>|| echo -n " already running"
>
> --background (double hyphen) is a start-stop-daemon option, not a xfs
> one.
Yeah, this was a brainfart. I think need to port forward Topi Miettinen's
daemonization patches to xfs from 3.3.6.
> [for anyone reading this: change your /etc/fs/config, xfs
> segfaults on start up if the path its trying to read doesn't exist --
> will look into it later if noone beats me to it]
Well, that's pretty dumb, but not a showstopper for phase2v1.
> * xdm
>
> Starting X display manager: xdm.
>
> and doesn't start. Starting the xserver manually:
>
> Could not find config file!
> - Tried:
> /root/XF86Config
> /etc/XF86Config
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.ysabell
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
>
> my best guess would be to fix the 3.3.6 servers to look in
> /etc/X11/XF86Config. Am I missing something obvious here?
What does /etc/X11/Xserver say?
> Trying to log in:
Where from? console? xdm? I thought you said you couldn't get xdm to
run.
> Aug 30 09:27:27 ysabell PAM_unix[189]: (su) session opened for user postgres by
>(uid=0)
> Aug 30 09:27:44 ysabell PAM_unix[233]: authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
>**unknown** for xdm service
> Aug 30 09:28:05 ysabell PAM_unix[221]: (login) session opened for user marcelo by
>LOGIN(uid=0)
> Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell su[252]: + tty2 marcelo-root
> Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell PAM_unix[252]: (su) session opened for user root by
>marcelo(uid=1000)
>
> sorry, I don't grok PAM and I don't think I can learn it in the five
> minutes I have left here.
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