Art Alexion on 2 Oct 2004 20:30:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] X or fluxbox problem 

Stephen Gran wrote:

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:50:08PM -0400, Art Alexion said:


My default window manager in Red Hat 7.3 is fluxbox. I use Yum/Fedora Legacy to keep the system up to date. A recent yum update updated a lot of stuff, including the kernel and XFree86. Now fluxbox won't load. It starts to load and then X restarts and I am back to the kdm login screen. 

KDE and Window Maker load fine.

The system is triple boot with Mandrake 9.1 on hdb5 (and windows somewhere on hda along with Red Hat). When I installed Mandrake, the install script promised that it would "update" my existing grub configuration. Instead, it replaced it. I had to hand configure it to boot Red Hat, but that worked OK until the kernel and X update. The kernel update was supposed to update grub, but I think it updated the unused Red Hat installation of grub. If that is the case, I may be booting a older kernel that is incompatible with the current X configuration.

Any ideas? I'd much rather use fluxbox than KDE on this partition.



Output of :
cat .xsession-errors
uname -a
egrep '^\((WW|EE)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or wherever Redhat puts the
 X logs)
lsmod
and X version



~/.xsession-errors
[saved to a file
$ cat .xsession-errors > xsession-errors.fluxbox
immediatly after an attempt to load so as not to overwrite it.]


   Failed to load groupfile:
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   You're probably trying to run an X app from the console, you idiot! RTFM
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   Fatal error : Couldn't open display

   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   wmclock: can't open display :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   wmtop: can't open display :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   wmmon: can't open display :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified


   Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified


   Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   yawmppp: can't open display :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
   Xlib: No protocol specified

   xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0
   xscreensaver: running as arthur/users (500/100)

# uname -a

   Linux rodney 2.4.20-30.7.legacy #1 Fri Feb 20 10:46:44 PST 2004 i686
   unknown

# egrep '^\((WW|EE)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log

   (WW) xf86AcquireGART: AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Device or resource busy)
   (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument)

# /sbin/lsmod

   Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
   ppp_synctty             6464   0  (unused)
   ppp_async               8224   1
   ppp_generic            23820   3  [ppp_synctty ppp_async]
   slhc                    6332   0  [ppp_generic]
   ne2k-pci                6496   1  (autoclean)
   8390                    8260   0  (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
   i810_audio             25600   2  (autoclean)
   ac97_codec             13280   0  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
   soundcore               6468   2  (autoclean) [i810_audio]
   i810                   66424  13
   agpgart                45184   6  (autoclean)
   lp                      8544   0  (autoclean)
   binfmt_misc             7236   1
   nfsd                   76832   8  (autoclean)
   lockd                  56832   1  (autoclean) [nfsd]
   sunrpc                 76948   1  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
   autofs                 11844   0  (autoclean) (unused)
   8139too                17024   1
   mii                     3976   0  [8139too]
   ipchains               50124   7
   ide-cd                 32256   0  (autoclean)
   cdrom                  32128   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
   nls_iso8859-1           3488   1  (autoclean)
   nls_cp437               5120   1  (autoclean)
   vfat                   12124   1  (autoclean)
   fat                    37080   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
   usb-uhci               24708   0  (unused)
   usbcore                73792   1  [usb-uhci]
   ext3                   66624   3
   jbd                    47596   3  [ext3]
   parport_pc             17540   1
   parport                34048   1  [lp parport_pc]
   sd_mod                 12828   0  (unused)
   scsi_mod              107548   1  [sd_mod]


# rpm -q XFree86

   XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.23

Without a little more information, I don't know what to say yet. The
above is where I would start. The fact that _some_ WMs work points to
it being a problem with fluxbox itself, so I think that .xsession-errors
will be the most enlightening, but I include the others on the off
chance that something interesting will pop up.


I tried to run fluxbox from within a kde session. all of the programs in .fluxbox/init loaded fine. Of course, the WM itself did not.

Also try moving your .fluxbox stuff out of the way, and retrying.


Not tried yet.



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