xfs - gui - recent updates

[Bill Perkins]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:06 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 09:40 퍍㐶⠞镦鵻૨뗡ꭺਫ죱➞⬰꺋帍 List,
>>
>>>>I have had two desktops that have had their gui stop working over the
>>>>weekend.  Both were E-Machines with ATI Mach64 video cards using
>>>>Princeton Ultra 72 and Ultra 74 monitors.  I have other E-Machines with
>>>>different cards using the same monitors that are still working.
>>>>
>>>>These two machines functioned without problems until the following
>>>>updates occurred :  ( I can boot each to runlevel 3 without difficulty)
>>>> 
>>>>Jan 14 14:24:38 Updated: system-config-bind.noarch 4.0.0-38_FC4
>>>>Jan 14 14:24:41 Updated: flex.i386 2.5.4a-35.fc4
>>>>
>>>>The above only represents one machine, because I rebuilt the os on the
>>>>other before I recognized it was not my mistake.  I currently do not
>>>>have bind running nor do I use flex on either machine.  
>>>> 
>>>>Other observations that I have made include the X.org.0.log entry of:
>>>>
>>>>Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>>>>
>>>>Fatal server error:
>>>>could not open default font 'fixed'
>>>>
>>>>I have also noticed that the xfs daemon is not running and when I try to
>>>>start it manually I get a "Segmentation Fault" error.
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone else reported problems related to these updates.  Can any of
>>>>you help me.  
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>Greg Ennis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I'm not running FC here at work, so can't give specific answers, but I might 
>>>have some general pointers you could check.
>>>
>>>When xfs starts it opens a unix domain socket, port 7100, to listen for requests 
>>>(hence the "font path element unix/:7100" above). On RHEL this is in 
>>>/tmp/.font-unix/fs7100. Does this file exist, is there a problem with the /tmp 
>>>or /tmp/.font-unix directory? This is how /tmp/.font-unix and 
>>>/tmp/.font-unix/fs7100 appear on my RHEL system:
>>>
>>>drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Jan  4 08:54 /tmp/.font-unix/
>>>srwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 Jan 18 09:35 /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
>>>
>>>Can you run xfs manually, via strace, to see what system calls it makes, and if 
>>>one is failing somewhere and causing it to abort? It might help pinpoint the 
>>>location of the problem. A seg. fault is not normal when starting xfs ;-)
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
>>>             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
>>>E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
>>>Phone :     )116 2523548, Fax : )116 2523555
>>
>>
>>Nigel,
>>
>>Thank you for your help. Here is some information as to your questions.
>>This information came from a unit that was a new install of an
>>"E-Machine" that worked well until I did an update with yum -y update.
>>The update was done immediately after the install  After the update the
>>gui login screen has failed.  I have two other units (all of which are
>>E-Machines) that have been running about 2 months without difficulty.
>>
>>I posted a bug report with Red Hat, but they feel like this is a config
>>problem and directed me back to this list.  It may be a config problem,
>>but it is not one that I or the other users have created in that this
>>the data below comes from a new install.
>>
>>Unfortunately, this problem has left the units unusable for the users,
>>and will need to be fixed for us to continue the migration from MS to
>>FC.
>>
>>Your help will be greatly appreciated!!!!
>>
>>Greg
>>
> 
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I am in a jam with 3 Fedora units that had their gui become unusable
> after the 14th.  One was even a fresh install that only became disabled
> after the yum update was done.
> 
> This is really hurting the Fedora conversion effort with my client.  If
> any of you can help me I would greatly appreciate it.  I am going to
> have to return these units to MS if I can not get the problem fixed so I
> would appreciate your help!!!!
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
Maybe have a look at your /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf file? Compare with 
/etc/X11/gdm/factory-gdm.conf file?

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