Re: xioerrors

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Jay Crews wrote:
> "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.

Uh, no.  The odds are that "xfs" isn't running.  Do a "ps -ax" and
verify that xfs is running.  If it isn't, start it and put that line
back into your config file.  Make sure you have a symbolic link in
your /etc/rc.d/rc5.d called "S30xfs" which links to ../init.d/xfs
thus:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    13 Aug 15 11:03 S90xfs -> ../init.d/xfs

If you don't have the link, do this to create it:

	# cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
	# ln -s ../init.d/xfs S30xfs

xfs is the X font server, and it serves fonts from unix port 7100
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