X windows freezes on start

[Karl Larsen]

Langdon Stevenson wrote:
> I decided to check if X works on my new server and ran into the 
> following problem:
>
> Server starts at run level 3 and operates fine.
>
> When I:
>
>   startx
>
> from the command line, X loads, then when it reaches the point where 
> it displays the splash screen for login, the splash screen flashes up 
> for a moment, with the cursor displaying as a hash of colour, then the 
> screen goes blank.
>
>
> I can ssh into the machine from another workstation, so the machine 
> hasn't hung.  "top" reveals that the X process is now thrashing the 
> CPU away at 100%.  But no response from keyboard or monitor of the 
> server itself.
>
> Only way to bring it back is to do a shutdown via the ssh session.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I should go about debugging this issue?
>
> Regards,
> Langdon
>
    Seems that most people running servers want to keep things simple 
and never even set up the X system. Your going to be ssh to the box all 
the time anyway it appears. Forget X.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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