[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Is X11 starting, and are you getting your desktop at this point?

--TP

Bert Rolston wrote:

>Hi Terrell,
>
>Well, it's almost there, but not quite.
>
>When I tried to logout, I got the following error.
>
>(EE) Problem parsing the config file
>(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile ()
>
>So I am assuming this relates to the inittab file.
>
>I re-enabled the commented out line.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Bert
>
>On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:46, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
>  
>
>>Here's how.
>>
>>for i in 7 8 9; do mknod /dev/tty$i c 4 $i; done
>>
>>--TP
>>
>>Bert Rolston wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi Terrell,
>>>
>>>OK, I tried the inittab changes, and learned the frustration of VIM
>>>while making these changes.
>>>
>>>I still get the same error message, but instead of respawning ID 4-6
>>>errors this has been reduced to 4 & 5 only.
>>>
>>>Methinks I need to recreate the nodes.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Bert
>>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:49, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Had another idea after that original post.  Check out your /etc/inittab 
>>>>file, and look for the line with tty6 in it.  It should look like this:
>>>>
>>>> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
>>>>
>>>>Comment that line out.  Then, do one of two things:
>>>>
>>>>A.)  reboot, or
>>>>B.)  change to runlevel 1, then back to runlevel 5
>>>>
>>>>and let us know how things go.  A device node should indeed be made for 
>>>>/dev/tty7-9, but we can do the above as a troubleshooting step.
>>>>
>>>>--TP
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
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