Arthur Alexion on Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:40:07 -0400 |
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 7/31/01, 3:48:12 PM, Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com> wrote regarding Re: [PLUG] Connection to x-server refused: > Bill Jonas wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:59:17PM +0000, Arthur Alexion wrote: > > > Could the opposite be possible? That is, could a disk space shortage, > > > exacerbated by temp files, either be preventing these files from being > > > written to disk, or overwriting them? I'm not getting any warnings, but > > > disk space is a bit tight on this machine. > > > > I'd think that in that case you wouldn't be able to start X at all. > > > > Can somebody else jump in here with ideas? > Well, if you don't see anything unusual at the end of /var/log/messages, > then I'd head over to http://www.xfree86.org and post the same question > on the xpert mailing list. Also, Redhat 6.2 is old enough that you are > running a couple versions back from the latest XFree86, so this may be a > resolved issue. I?ll try this. > Out of curiosity, is it any program or one specific program you can't > start? Can you start another xterm when this happens, or do they fail > also? If you have an xterm up, then close one, can you start another > one? Once it happens, nothing x will run. Everything running continues without a problem. I never specifically tried closing an xterm window and restarting it, but I have tried shutting down j-pilot and xterm in order to run kppp or rp3 and that did not work, so it is not a simple free memory issue. Once it happens, no matter what I shut, I still can?t start anything else. Art > -- > Kevin > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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