[PLUG] Failed boot and no startx

Thu Mar 6 10:32:02 UTC 2003

Sean,

There you go, sparky. Clear up room on / and you'll be miles ahead!

-Cooper

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:28, Sean Dixon wrote:
> 
> 
> Holy cow!  
> /dev/hda2	size=11G  	Used=11G  	Avail=0	Use=100%
> Mounted on=/
> /dev/hda1	size=100M	Used=19M	Avail=76M	Use=20%
> Mounted on=/boot
> None		size=62M	Used=0	Avail=61M	Use=0%	Mounted
> on=/dev/shm	
> 
> How could I possibly use up 11G?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Cooper Stevenson
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:20 AM
> To: PLUG Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Failed boot and no startx
> 
> 
> Sean,
> 
> What is the output of the following command:
> 
>   df -h
> 
> 
> -Cooper
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:01, Sean Dixon wrote:
> > This is the error message I get when I try to launch startx in user
> > account:
> > 
> > Error loading keymap /var/tmp/server-0.xkm
> > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> > Mkdtemp: private socket dir: No space left on device
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org 
> > [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Sean Dixon
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:49 AM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: RE: [PLUG] Failed boot and no startx
> > 
> > 
> > Actually what I did is ran Xfree -configure and created a new 
> > XF86Config file.  I replaced the old one with this new one and startx 
> > worked in root.  HOWEVER, when I tried to launch startx in my user 
> > account it returned an error.
> > 
> > When I looked at the new file, I noticed it was very different that 
> > the original and missing a lot of data, but it had more font info.  I 
> > edited the new file to include the missing data of the original and it
> 
> > wouldn't boot stating the screen info couldn't be found.
> > 
> > I have returned to the new file and trying to figure out why startx 
> > won't work in the user account.
> > 
> > The info you provided is awesome and I am going to check it out.  I 
> > don't really mind breaking this and fixing it again.  My intention is 
> > to learn and this is the fastest way I know how.  At least in this 
> > case I am not messing around on someone else's network.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org 
> > [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Mark Martin
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:12 AM
> > To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Failed boot and no startx
> > 
> > 
> > No reason to panic, Sean.  It just sounds like you accidentally 
> > modified the "Files" section of your XF86Config file so that the X 
> > server can't find your
> > fonts.  Here is the corresponding section of XF86Config-4 from my
> system
> > 
> > (Mandrake 8.2)
> > 
> > Section "Files"
> > 
> >     RgbPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> >     FontPath   "unix/:-1"
> > 
> > EndSection
> > 
> > The FontPath variable contains possible locations for fonts.  In my 
> > case (and it sounds like this is your case too), the X server acquires
> 
> > fonts via a font
> > server xfs.  The number "-1" in my case and "700" in your case refers
> to
> > the 
> > port that the font server uses.  Since the default port for the font
> > server 
> > is 7100, my guess is that you accidentally deleted the 1 to end up
> with
> > 700.  
> > If you were not using a font server, this variable would contain a
> list
> > of 
> > directories where the X server should look for fonts.
> > 
> > You can determine what port your font server is running on by looking 
> > at the command line used to start the font server.  A quick and dirty 
> > way to do this
> > is to read it from the process table, which you can do using the
> command
> > 
> > ps wp `ps aux | grep xfs | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
> > 
> > On my system, this shows that the font server was started with the 
> > command
> > 
> > xfs -port -1 -daemon -droppriv -user xfs
> > 
> > which indicates that the port that my font server is running on is -1.
> 
> > If the command line does not contain the -port argument, then the font
> 
> > server is
> > running on the default port of 7100.
> > 
> > For more information about the font server, look at the man page for 
> > xfs.  You could also look at the man page for XF86Config for more 
> > information about the
> > configuration file.
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > P.S. Problems with the X server are not usually related to problems 
> > with a filesystem.  So, checking your filesystem wasn't really 
> > warranted.
> > 
> > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 18:06, Sean Dixon wrote:
> > > On a recent reboot my computer freaked out and refused to boot into 
> > > xwindows.  I changed the inittab to login at console and tried to go
> 
> > > in trough startx and was greeted with a fatal error message.
> > >
> > > I was dinking around with the XF86config file trying to see if I 
> > > could
> > 
> > > get my wheel mouse to work and think I might have screwed something 
> > > up. I tried to run XFree86 from GUI but didn't see anything happen.
> > >
> > > Now I am unable to get to any GUI.
> > >
> > > What have I done?!
> > >
> > > I ran fsck /dev/hda1, but to no avail.
> > >
> > > The error messages that are returned on startx failure are:
> > >
> > > Fatal Server Error:
> > > Could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > > Could not init font path element unix/:700, removing from list!
> > --
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mark A. Martin, Ph.D.
> > Applied Mathematics -- Software Development -- Systems Administration
> > Currently available for employment. See
> > http://www.amath.washington.edu/~mmartin/resume/ for details.
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> > 
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