Brand new Dell 1425SC

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:10 -0700, steve wrote:
> I installed RHEL 4 then used up2date to make it current. When I
> restarted the process X is using 100% of the CPU. I ssh into and don't
> use the X windows server. What is going on?

I don't know.  Have you examined /var/log/messages or dmesg for clues?
Also check /var/log/xorg.log.

> How do I kill the thing (can't use kill -9 as it won't work)????

As long as you're booted into run level 5, init will respawn the X
environment whenever it dies.  You can force a restart by doing

	killall -9 prefdm gdm-binary X

If you really wish to kill it, you must get out of run level 5 by using

	telinit 3

> (BTW: Did anyone else notice that older servers running more slowly
> after the last big slew of update?)

Uhm, no, but we don't typically run _servers_ in GUI mode.  I don't have
any desktops running RHEL4.  I do have some servers running it and I
haven't seen anything bizarre other than some problems with a Jetstor
disk array.  We're fairly certain we have a hardware problem there.

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