[ale] XTrouble86

[Jim Kinney]

What did you "upgrade" from?  Do you have a user named xfs? My /etc/passwd
file line:

xfs:!!:101:101:X Font Server:/etc/X11/fs:/bin/false

My RH5->5.1->6.0 has worked very smoothly. I have added a multitude of
other programs as source-to-binary-rpms. 

What did you reconfigure in /etc/X11/XF86Config?

If you are running Gnome, it wants to have working network or at least a
real hostname.

On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM wrote:

> I just upgraded my XFree86 using the "friendly" RedHat Proprietary Method
> (RPM j/k). Everything went smooth, and I made sure to reconfigure (edit
> /etc/X11/XF86Config). I rebooted for kicks. The problem is when starting up
> run-level 5, the system gets hung on "Starting XFS". I thought, well let's
> not have it start XFS, so I booted into single user mode and took that step
> out of the booting process (renamed S92xfs to K92xfs). No luck. I can
> however boot into single user mode, then "telinit" to run-level three. After
> logging in as USERNAME, I can "startx" and everything works fine, even XFS!
> Below is the only thing I can find in the logs, I would like to resolve this
> incase I do ever decide to power my PC off.
> 
> Log file:
> 
> Sep  9 15:55:50 rjaninda2 PAM_pwdb[540]: (su) session opened for user xfs by
> (uid=0)
> Sep  9 15:55:50 rjaninda2 su: _FontTrans
> Sep  9 15:55:50 rjaninda2 su: SocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get
> service for -1
> Sep  9 15:55:50 rjaninda2 su: _FontTrans
> Sep  9 15:55:50 rjaninda2 su: MakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create
> listener for tcp
> Sep  9 15:57:50 rjaninda2 init: Switching to runlevel: 6
> Sep  9 15:57:50 rjaninda2 PAM_pwdb[540]: (su) session closed for user xfs
> Sep  9 15:57:50 rjaninda2 Font Server[542]: terminating 
> 
> What the hell is this? XFS has a UID=0?!?!?! And listens on a port?!?!?!
> Someone explain please.
> 
> You can see I waited for 2 minutes for this thing to boot before I "3-finger
> saluted" it.
> 
> thanks,
> --Randy
>