Brand new Dell 1425SC

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:40 -0700, steve wrote:
> Thanks. I ran VNC to see if I could look around and find out if there
> was some sort of error message in the windowing system, but no luck.
> Then I went to runlevel 3, rebooted, and it was fine. I even went back
> to runlevel 5 and suddently it worked OK. I spent too much time and
> too many reboots until that happened...
> 
> Oh well, it works now.
> 
> Thanks!

"Fedora ghost strikes again!  Film at 11!"

> 
> -s
> 
> On 10/26/05, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:10 -0700, steve wrote:
> > > I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I
> > > restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't
> > > use the X windows server. What is going on?
> >
> > I don't know.  Have you examined /var/log/messages or dmesg for clues?
> > Also check /var/log/xorg.log.
> >
> > > How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)????
> >
> > As long as you're booted into run level 5, init will respawn the X
> > environment whenever it dies.  You can force a restart by doing
> >
> >         killall -9 prefdm gdm-binary X
> >
> > If you really wish to kill it, you must get out of run level 5 by using
> >
> >         telinit 3
> >
> > > (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly
> > > after the last big slew of update?)
> >
> > Uhm, no, but we don't typically run _servers_ in GUI mode.  I don't have
> > any desktops running RHEL4.  I do have some servers running it and I
> > haven't seen anything bizarre other than some problems with a Jetstor
> > disk array.  We're fairly certain we have a hardware problem there.

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