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jjd228
08-04-2003, 08:52 AM
X worked fine for a few weeks. i changed nothing, and one morning I said, startx, and nothing. black screen. rebooted several times and keep getting the same thing. any ideas what i should do?
Hayl
08-04-2003, 09:16 AM
take a look at the log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log
see if there are any errors
jjd228
08-04-2003, 09:44 AM
there are no errors in the log. what next?
Hayl
08-04-2003, 10:18 AM
try

startx > log.txt

that will pipe any output of the startx command to the file log.txt

check and see if you get any output.

or

just rerun xf86config
jjd228
08-04-2003, 10:27 AM
i ran startx > newlog.txt and that did not work. the file has nothing in it. what is the command to run the x config in redhat 9? xf86config is not found
sharth
08-04-2003, 10:55 AM
dince i don't use a rpm distro, i dunno exactly how this would work. but someone should be able to suggest the commands.

what i think happened is that you installed something that conflicted with the x server, and to fix the depend, you removed X.
sharth
08-04-2003, 11:50 AM
but wait. How the heck can newlog.txt have nothing in it... you typed something wrong. it should have at the least command not found, or an error message or something...
jjd228
08-04-2003, 11:59 AM
nope. startx > newlog.txt

as in, redirect the output of the startx command to the file newlog.txt

nothing in the file

where is the x config utility in redhat?
scinerd
08-04-2003, 12:00 PM
I have seen this type of problem before on some of my cleint's machines. I would make sure your /tmp filesystem is not full. I have seen X start to start then crash when it can't write to a temp file but this should be showing some kind of error. The other thing you might try but it will wipe out your personal setttings is to move your .gnome or .kde depending on which on you use to some like gnome.old or kde.old. This will cause X remake these directory from scratch.
jjd228
08-04-2003, 12:04 PM
it seems that X is actually starting fine. it just wont display itself on the monitor. LOL... heres the thing: NOTHING has changed. no software has been installed, no settings changed etc... one day it worked, then it stopped. anyone? please???
KeeperChris
08-04-2003, 09:04 PM
where is the x config utility in redhat?

If you're running RedHat9, the command is:

redhat-config-xfree86