Re: xioerrors

[Jay Crews <jpc jaycrews com>]

"Chiu, PCM (Peter) " writes....
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> The console window manager on our RH 9.0 box fails to start up with 
> repeated messages recording in /var/log/messages: 
> 
> gdm[nnnn]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting 0 
> 
> Following a suggestion obtained through the web, we commented out 
> the following line in /etc/X11/XF86Config: 
> 
>     FontPath  "unix/:7100" 
> 
> the display manager can then come up. 
> 
> However, we can only log on using the root account. 

A wild guess but maybe something to look around for
before someone who really knows what they are talking about
to reply is.........file protections.

Check the files you edited of maybe recently changed
to make sure soomething is not "chmod 700" when it might
should be open to group/world.

I can't tell you where to start, but my /etc/X11/XF86Config
is:

[root scooby root]# ls -al /etc/X11/XF86Config
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3259 Jul 24 10:28 /etc/X11/XF86Config


> 
> When we tried to log in using any of our normal user accounts, 
> a small window pops up saying there are problems detected. 
> It then reverts back to the normal logon screen. 
> 
> The system is part of a NIS client, but we can log on 
> remotely using ssh (ie. non window) with the normal user accounts. 
> 
> In the system log /var/log/messages, it reports: 
> 
> gdm(pam_unix)[nnnn]: bad username [pcmc] 
> gdm-binary[nnnn]: Couldn't authenticate user 
> gdm(pam_unix}[nnnn]: session closed for user pcmc 
> gdm is 2.4.1.3 
> 
> The system has been working fine (without a reboot) for quite sometime. 
> 
> In the up2date log (/var/log/up2date.2), it was recorded
> on Nov 18, a number updates were applied on XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.43 
> and relating XFree86 products. 
> 
> Not sure if that is relevant to the problems now experience. 
> 
> Peter 
> 
> 
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-- Jay Crews
jpc jaycrews com