The last time that this problem appeared, the cause was not being 
able to write to the disk because the disk was full.

What is the output from df?

What do you get when you run umask in /tmp?

Is this machine stand-alone or networked?

--
  Matt Galgoci
  Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
             echo $title

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:

> This is what I get when I do /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status...
>  /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
> xfs dead but subsys locked
> 
> All teh time I was starting xfs as /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start  and this was
> failing...
> 
> I just ran xfs from the command line and it worked....why is this what is
> the difference between the two..???
> 
> A
> 
> >
> > Any useful messages in /var/log/messages from xfs?
> >
> > How about trying to run an strace on xfs from the command line?
> >
> > --Matt
> >
> > --
> >   Matt Galgoci
> >   Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
> >      echo $title
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > > I tried all three::
> > >
> > > 1. hostname resolves perfectly..
> > > 2. have ample space in all my partitions
> > > 3. Yes /tmp is writeable...
> > >
> > > what else could be the problem???
> > >
> > > Thx,
> > > Arni
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Does your hostname resolve to an ip address? If this is a standalone
> > > > machine, make sure that the hostname is at least in your /etc/hosts
> > > > file.
> > > >
> > > > Also make sure that you have not run out of disk space, and the /tmp
> is
> > > > writable.
> > > >
> > > > --Matt
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >   Matt Galgoci
> > > >   Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
> > > >      echo $title
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > My xfs server does not start on startup...just hangs...I have
> > > toCtrl-d..any
> > > > > tips on how I can get it running??? It used to work..but recently it
> > > stopped
> > > > > working..I desp need it from dome TT font rendering..I never changed
> > > > > anything I swear..
> > > > >
> > > > > Thx,
> > > > > Arni
> > > > >
> > > > >
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