[K12OSN] XFree fatal error 104

[Bert Rolston]

Hi folks,

I could use some help with this.

I was working on a machine last night. 
Created a new user with Webmin, gave it /bin/bash as it's shell. 

Shutdown the machine.

This morning I start it up, and I get the following error message/s

May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba /sbin/mingetty[1878]: /dev/tty4: cannot open tty: Input/output error
May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba /sbin/mingetty[1879]: /dev/tty6: cannot open tty: Input/output error
May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba /sbin/mingetty[1880]: /dev/tty4: cannot open tty: Input/output error
May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
May  6 12:34:58 WDRCSamba init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
May  6 12:35:01 WDRCSamba gdm[1881]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
May  6 12:35:02 WDRCSamba gdm[1887]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
May  6 12:35:06 WDRCSamba gdm[1889]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
May  6 12:35:10 WDRCSamba gdm[1891]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
May  6 12:35:10 WDRCSamba gdm[1811]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the XKeepsCrashing script

If I go into /dev and 
> ls -l tty? 

I get the following

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        4,   0 Jan 30  2003 tty0
crw--w----    1 root     tty        4,   1 May  6 12:46 tty1
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   2 May  6 12:34 tty2
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   3 May  6 12:34 tty3
crw-------    1 root     root       3, 142 Jan 30  2003 tty4
crw-------    1 root     root       3, 143 Jan 30  2003 tty5
crw-------    1 root     root       3, 141 Jan 30  2003 tty6

BUT when I do a listing for different tty I get this

> ls -l ttyw?
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     tty        3, 112 Jan 30  2003 ttyw0