[plug] woody X

[James Elliott]

Check that your CMOS has not changed - long shot but worth a check .... if
the battery went flat and your CMOS battery was also weak  it might have
reset itself.

James Elliott
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Steicke" <r.steicke at bom.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] woody X


> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 07:15:41PM +0800, garry wrote:
> ...
> > My laptop battery went flat. On startup, I couldnt start x as a normal
> > user, but it is fine as root..
> > Box is up to date as of UWA's mirror, and appears to be fine otherwise..
> >
> > Must be a user level X file has become corrupt I guess..!?
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Could be ~/.xsession, ~/.xinitrc, or perhaps one of your gnome or kde or
> windowmaker (or ...) configs.
>
> Are you starting X with startx, or doing a login via xdm/gdm etc?
>
> If you're using xdm, then you should see errors in ~/.xsession-errors.
> If startx, then the errors should be on the screen.  But they may have
> scrolled off, so try
>
>   $ startx >xlog 2>&1
>
> then look in xlog to see the error messages.  There's lots of other
> stuff in there too, so you'll have to hunt around a bit.
>
> And it is worthwhile putting a journalling filesystem on your laptop.
> You can change to ext3 from ext2 without losing any data.
>
> > Garry.
>
>
> --
> Russell Steicke
>
> -- Fortune says:
> This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.  If this had been an
> actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?
>
>
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