[ale] XFree Problems

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Feb 9 11:23:23 EST 2004


On Saturday 07 February 2004 04:17 pm, Cory T. Echols wrote:
> On 02/07, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > If I let the bootstrap run though runlevel 5, I get no display at all.
> > I changed to runlevel 3 from grub, logged in and then issued startx,
> > it worked! So I figure, what the hey now let's try to go from boot
> > straight through to X windows, no luck...
>
> <snip>
>
> If startx works, I'd rule out an X configuration problem.  The next
> candidate is gdm -- the gnome display manager.  It's logs should be in
> /var/log/gdm.  Perhaps there's a helpful error message in there.

Right.  and you can see some kind of error in the xlog you suplied:
> (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
> AUDIT: Tue Feb  3 18:32:27 2004: 3572 X: client 4 rejected from localhost

I don't know what that means, however.

Michael



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