On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:33:05AM -0700, Steven Boswell wrote:
> But I can't get X Windows to work reliably in 6.2! (I don't remember
> having ANYWHERE this much trouble with X Windows in previous Red Hat
> releases.) When I start it, it looks like it's trying to start X
> Windows, fails, and then loops back and tries to do it again. So it
> just gets itself into a loop where it constantly fails, and there's no
> way to stop it. Even worse, I can't switch to any other virtual
> console, because it just switches back to the broken X Windows console.
> Only if I Ctrl-Alt-Delete over and over quickly do I have a chance of
> getting the machine back under my control.
Hi,
I've had similar problems to this under Redhat 6.1 recently. In my case
it turned out that the X font server had died, and it seemed to be
impossible to restart it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
because a subsystem had been locked in a certain way.
In this instance, a reboot fixed it (one can be cautious and bring
the machine up in a lower runlevel than 5 if one wants).
If you can get a console or a remote login to the machine, check
the status of xfs with /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
This might not be the problem in your case, but you never know...
best wishes,
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