[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

[Bert Rolston]

Hi Terrell,

I did have the desktop. 

I was a little bit premature in posting this. The X configurator ran
after that and it appears to be running correctly.

I'll leave it running for a while and see if this makes a difference.

Cheers,
Bert

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:32, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> Is X11 starting, and are you getting your desktop at this point?
> 
> --TP
> 
> Bert Rolston wrote:
> 
> >Hi Terrell,
> >
> >Well, it's almost there, but not quite.
> >
> >When I tried to logout, I got the following error.
> >
> >(EE) Problem parsing the config file
> >(EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile ()
> >
> >So I am assuming this relates to the inittab file.
> >
> >I re-enabled the commented out line.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Bert
> >
> >On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:46, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Here's how.
> >>
> >>for i in 7 8 9; do mknod /dev/tty$i c 4 $i; done
> >>
> >>--TP
> >>
> >>Bert Rolston wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi Terrell,
> >>>
> >>>OK, I tried the inittab changes, and learned the frustration of VIM
> >>>while making these changes.
> >>>
> >>>I still get the same error message, but instead of respawning ID 4-6
> >>>errors this has been reduced to 4 & 5 only.
> >>>
> >>>Methinks I need to recreate the nodes.
> >>>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>Bert
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:49, Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Had another idea after that original post.  Check out your /etc/inittab 
> >>>>file, and look for the line with tty6 in it.  It should look like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> >>>>
> >>>>Comment that line out.  Then, do one of two things:
> >>>>
> >>>>A.)  reboot, or
> >>>>B.)  change to runlevel 1, then back to runlevel 5
> >>>>
> >>>>and let us know how things go.  A device node should indeed be made for 
> >>>>/dev/tty7-9, but we can do the above as a troubleshooting step.
> >>>>
> >>>>--TP
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>
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