Cannot Start xserver

[Barry Brimer]

I am unsure why an X server is needed on a server, but have you tried 
backing up your X configuration and then using "system-config-display 
--reconfig" to try and reconfigure your X?  Are you running out of memory? 
What does top tell you?

On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Kalyan Sundar wrote:

> /tmp and /var have 5GB of space . There is no log file created as well.
> There are times when the terminal window crashes after it reaches a point..
>
> Not sure how to proceed on this.. Kindly advice.
>
> Thanks,
> kalyan
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote:
>
>>   We are trying to unzip a huge file on our Linux server.
>>> It is progressising without any issues but after 2 hrs I get below error.
>>>
>>> Cannot Start Xserver (your graphical interface) It is likely that it is
>>> not
>>> set-up correctly.
>>>
>>> Please advice to resolve such behavior of Linux.
>>>
>>> Note : We are on RHEL AS 4 .
>>>
>>
>> Linux does strange things when you run out of disk space on your /, /tmp,
>> or /var filesystem.  Any chance you have run out of disk space?  What do
>> your logs say?
>>
>> Barry
>>
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