icsu6000@caesar.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) (09/02/89)
A friend of mine (Really! :-) has a 3100, that has a problem we can't seem to find. He deleted the /tmp directory by accident, recreated it with the proper modes and stuff. When he reboots his machine now, he doesn't get the Xprompter stuff, just a blank X screen. We can open other windown on it, and in fact can start the Xprompter session by hand. syslog had some early errors about 'failing, sleeping' which have now gone away... X0msgs has nothing in it, syserr has nothing. the getty line in the /etc/ttys file looks fine, and in fact we did a find of all files that had been modified on the day he screwed it up, and they all match with another 3100 that I have. Any bright ideas? I've looked in /dev and all that stuff matches, and the X window socket appears in /tmp...
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (09/07/89)
I suggest using fverify against the subsets you have installed to see if anything obvious jumps out. Some things will be different that you expect -- /etc/passwd, for example --but look for obvious X stuff. I suspect that your /usr/lib/X11/rgb.dir file is bad. (And if it is, boy won't *I* look like a wizard! :-) Actually, I've have seen that happen before...) # cd / # foreach i (/usr/etc/subsets/*.inv) > echo $i > fverify < $i > end Fred