[TriLUG] Xwindows on RedHat 8.0

[Lee Fickenscher]

Jeff,
I had a problem similar to yours under Gentoo when using GDM to launch
gnome2. The cause was a font config problem that silently killed GDM.
If this is your situation (minus the Gentoo obviously) then
info on how to fix it in Gentoo can be found here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19194&highlight=gnome+crashes
Perhaps you can use that translate that into something usefull on
Redhat. Their solution was to add the fonts from XF86Config to
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
Hope this helps,
Lee

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 04:53:48PM -0500, Jeff Bollinger wrote:
> I did the "everything" install for RedHat 8.0 and now I'm getting some
> strange problems loading X.  I log into the system, and type "startx" to
> begin my session.  The first window that says "RedHat Linux" with the blue
> background comes up, but the icons that normally sequentially load below
> it are not coming up.  The system just hangs there and never actually
> initializes X.  This problem came after I rebooted the system.
> 
> I can get to a virtual console and operate fine, but nothing in
> XFree86.log has any errors, nor /var/log/messages, nor dmesg.  I also
> don't know of any lock files that would prevent X (Gnome) from starting.
> There is some stuff in /tmp but nothing with any broken symlinks.  Has
> anyone else seen this?  I've added nothing to the system, and I'm not sure
> why this keeps happening.  I've duplicated the error as my user account
> and as root and get the same problem.  Please let me know if anyone has
> any ideas.
> 
> Thanks,
> JEff
> 
> Jeff Bollinger, CISSP
> University of North Carolina
> IT Security Analyst
> 105 Abernethy Hall
> mailto: jeff_bollinger at unc dot edu
> 
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