Issues with RHGB and broken xorg.conf files
Philip Prindeville
philipp at enteka.com
Fri Jun 17 17:27:47 UTC 2005
I was wondering what would be involved in making
the "graphical boot" procedure more robust....
I was working with a variety of dual-head monitors
trying to get two screens working, and managed to
make a typo in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
When the system froze up and needed to be rebooted,
of course, I got the "Configuring kernel parameters:"
message and then it hung.
Apparently it tries to start up an X server, fails,
and then... well, that's all she wrote.
This doesn't seem very robust. Failing to start the
X server shouldn't be a fatal error. At the very
least, it should kick out an error message (like
"Starting X server [ FAILED ]") and behave as if
$GRAPHICAL=no... so that one can get into the system
and repair the damage, then restart the X server.
So, as a result, I routinely set GRAPHICAL=no on all
new installs... and will continue to until the boot
process has this Achilles Heel removed.
Am I alone in my thinking? Doing a scan of various
forums reveals that this is not an uncommon occurrence.
-Philip
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