Re: gdm [<PID>] Failed to start X server several times ....

[Ivan Teliatnikov <ivan es usyd edu au>]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Frans Rohde wrote:

Not an elegant solution of cause, but you may consider upgrading to RH7.3 
it is 
much much better.

Ivan.

> Hi,
> 
> After some years without problems gdm suddenly started to write the
> following message in the /var/log/message file:
> Sep 20 13:55:05 pulsar gdm[6615]: Failed to start X server several
> times in a short period; disabling display :0
> 
> This messages is repeated every 30 seconds.
> 
> After that the machine disappears from the chooser window of our
> X-Terminals, so we are not able to login anymore.
> After deleting /tmp/.X0-lock and /tmp/.X11-unix I kill the X process
> and then it runs again for some time until the failure happens again.
> 
> I cannot find the cause of this problem!!
> 
> The machine runs RedHat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.2-2., XFree86-4.0.3-5
> and gdm-2.0beta2-45
> 
> Regards, Frans
> 
> 

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