Re: gdm exiting w/ "Fatal X Error"... help?

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

"Zacharias J. Beckman" <zbeckman@creativesun.com> writes:

> I'm getting this message, over and over again, whenever I try to enter run
> level 5:
> 
> Dec  4 04:56:08 ra gdm[1220]: gdm_slave_windows_kill_ioerror_handler: Fatal
> X error - Restarting :0
> Dec  4 04:56:14 ra gdm[1226]: gdm_slave_windows_kill_ioerror_handler: Fatal
> X error - Restarting :0
> etc.
> 
> So the big question is: WHERE do I look to find out what's been broken?
> 
> I've already poked around at the obvious things, like making sure that
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a link to Xwrapper, etc. I can't find anything obvious,
> such as, say, /usr having been erased. Any help would be greatly, greatly
> appreciated!

Can you run X/startx fine from the console?

Jacob
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