X failing on boot but startx works fine

[Elton Woo]

Paul Pianta wrote:

> hi people
> i have been using fedora since release and just today a strange thing
> started happening. My X fails to start on boot (it fails 6 times then
> says it will wait 2 mins b4 retrying). This is strange because before 

IMHO, this is usually an indication of an invalid resolution having been 
chosen. IOW, your X is erroneously configured.

> is being used and so goes off trying to use DISPLAY:1 which also fails 6
> times and then waits 2 mins b4 it all starts all over again ....
>
> as you can probably see - my work is interupted every 2 mins (for
> approx. 2 mins) while X chucks a spac!
>
> any ideas on how to solve this annoying problem - oh yeah i checked
> /var/log/XFree* and there are no error messages there :( 

... if this is any help: have you had a look at /etc/X11/X86Config? This 
is where I would look, besides checking your log files.

HTH,

Elton ;-)


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