Xwindows Crashing

[MarcusKracht]

I have installed RC8 and get the xwindows, but when I exit I cannot get
it to work again. No matter what I do the xserver crashes with the following
message:

[w100fb] set 640x480 (VGA 90 degree)

waiting for X server to shut down set_power_state: what=256 state=0
send_event: event=0

If I say: startx -bg red
or use any sensible option, I get a white xterm covering the left upper corner of an
otherwise grey screen; nothing else. I am completely lost as to why this is the
case.  Since I suspect that maybe something with the system is not ok, I give
you the full dmesg. Please have a look. I am not a linux or unix expert, just an
experienced user.

Linux version 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-021129 (sash@tomsk.pdaXrom.org) (gcc vers
ion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Sun, 26 Dec 2004 03:51:11 +0000
CPU: Intel XScale-PXA255 revision 6
Machine: SHARP Shepherd
Converting old-style param struct to taglist
Memory clock: 99.53MHz (*27)
Run Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*2)
Turbo Mode clock: 398.13MHz (*2.0, active)
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sharpsl-nand:716
8k@0k(smf),51200k@7168k(root),-(home) jffs2_orphaned_inodes=delete LOGO=1 LAUNCH
=q
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 61856KB available (1988K code, 468K data, 152K init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
BlueZ Core ver 2.4 Copyright © 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
RCSR = 5
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.14)
batok installed
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.1. © 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications
 AB.
reset resolution unkown => 640x480
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: W100FB frame buffer device
keyboard initilaized.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
SharpSL serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8100000x (irq = 14) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xf8700000x (irq = 12) is a 16550A, using IRDA
ttyS02 at 0xf8200000x (irq = 13) is a 16550A
rs_init: IRDA H/W initializaion
sharpled_init: done.
corgi remote controller
Cotulla Real Time Clock driver v1.00
Cotulla Touch Screen driver initialized
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
PPP BSD Compression module registered
ide_cs.c 1.26 1999/11/16 02:10:49 (David Hinds)
Corgi audio driver initialize
Sharp SL series flash device: 1000000 at 0
Using static partision definition
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash":
0x00120000-0x007f0000 : "Filesystem"
NAND device: Manufacture ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x79 (Samsung K9D1G08V0M)
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "Samsung K9D1G08V0M":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : "smf"
0x00700000-0x03900000 : "root"
0x03900000-0x08000000 : "home"
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pm]
Intel PXA250/210 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22)
pxa_pcmcia_init(0)
pxa_pcmcia_init(1)
Backlight Driver Initialized.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
BlueZ L2CAP ver 2.3 Copyright © 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
BlueZ RFCOMM ver 1.1
Copyright © 2002 Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Copyright © 2002 Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
BlueZ BNEP ver 1.2
Copyright © 2001,2002 Inventel Systemes
Written 2001,2002 by Clement Moreau <clement.moreau@inventel.fr>
Written 2001,2002 by David Libault <david.libault@inventel.fr>
Copyright © 2002 Maxim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 © 1998-1999 Rebel.com
IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: bogus logical sector size 381
ofs 0x00068400 has already been seen. Skipping
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068404: 0x0044 in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068408: 0xfb1d in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x0006840c: 0x0efb in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068410: 0x0001 in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068414: 0x41ed in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068420: 0x9a87 in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068424: 0x9a87 in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068428: 0x9a87 in
stead
jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00068440: 0x7c32 in
stead
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing init memory: 152K
sdcardmgr: SD card inserted!
SD card manager installed.
SD card manager uninstalled.
[SD]-clustsize = 4000
Partition check:
 mmcda: p1
SD Driver Initialized.
sharp_mmcsd 0.21 27 Sep 2002
ide_attach()
ide_config(0xc3207180)
Trying to free nonexistent resource <f6000000-f600000f>
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
hda: TOSHIBA THNCF512MBA, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xf6000008-0xf600000f,0xf600000e on irq 39
hda: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=993/16/63
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
ide_cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
usbdm: usbd_monitor 0.3 035 2002-06-12 20:00
monitor_connected: 1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
usbdm: usbd_monitor 0.3 035 2002-06-12 20:00
monitor_connected: 1
monitor_load:
monitor_hotplug: agent: usbd interface: monitor action: load
usbdcore: usbdcore 0.1 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="")
net_fd 0.1 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="",alwaysup=0,OUT=64,IN=64)
vendorID: 4dd productID: 9031
pxa_bi 0.1-alpha 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="")
bi_modinit: call udc_startup_events
bi_device_event: call udc_enable
bi_device_event: call udc_all_interrupts
monitor_modinit: finished
[w100fb] set 640x480 (VGA 90 degree)
Set fastsysclk 100
apm_console_blank: blank=0
set_power_state: what=256 state=0
send_event: event=0

[diesel1]

I have tried startx -bg red.

I think X is starting without a window manager, maybe because of the options you pass to startx.

I get an xterm with which ever colour I specify.  I can exit and restart this or the normal startx command at will.

Simon.

[MarcusKracht]

I have tried startx -bg red.

I think X is starting without a window manager, maybe because of the options you pass to startx.

I get an xterm with which ever colour I specify.  I can exit and restart this or the normal startx command at will.

Simon.
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OK, but when I issue "startx" it comes up and then crashes. I do not pass any
options (as far as I am aware of). How can I prevent this? How can I get the
normal nice gui?

-- Marcus

[pgas]

Marcus,

This happens when you start X as root, or with an other user as you mention in one of your other post?

X starts an then crash with startx -bg red?
but not startx only?

[MarcusKracht]

pgas, you wrote

Marcus,

This happens when you start X as root, or with an other user as you mention in one of your other post?

X starts an then crash with startx -bg red?
but not startx only?
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What happens is this: when I try this as root, I get this breakdown. I have installed
RC8 and added a user upon which I got the gui for me as user but not for me as
root. Then I started to have problems with it and decided to flash the ROM once
again. Currently, I have only root as a user, and startx crashes. More precisely: if
I enter "startx" I get a grey screen for a while and then it disappears leaving me with
the messages I gave you, which are unrevealing. If I enter "startx -bg red" or
"start -vb" or any other acceptable option added, then I get the white xterm
(without top bar ror anything) at the upper left corner, the rest of the screen is
grey. That's it. It does not crash but is dysfunctional. There are no icons, no
sidebar or anything.

-- Marcus

[pgas]

Markus, what Z do you have?

Maybe you use previous partition for root that is too small? I think the requirement for
the root size is bigger now that it was before.

Could you try df in a console to see if you have enough space?

I got the same message you have, except that everything is working.

[MarcusKracht]

Markus, what Z do you have?

Maybe you use previous partition for root that is too small? I think the requirement for
the root size is bigger now that it was before.

Could you try df in a console to see if you have enough space?

I got the same message you have, except that everything is working.
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pgas,

thanks for the hint. I resized the root partition to 121 MB and from then on it worked
perfectly. Though I should say that my experience has brought to light a number
of weak spots of RC8. First, the recommended 50MB are not enough (I used df and
/ was 98% full). This should be changed in the menu, I am sure it will confuse more
people.

Before that I had tried 121MB but then also added myself as a user.  Then Xwindows
would crash for me as user, and be very ugly for me as root (this has been described
by others as well). So I went to 70MB but had other problems there, most prominently
the password utility did not work properly. That said, I am now trying out 121MB root
partition, single user, me as root. So far it worked fine, and it is actually faster than
1.0.5. Many thanks!

-- Marcus

(C860, RC8)

[MarcusKracht]

Sorry to bring it up again ... but xwindows crashes again after reboot.
I am desperate for help!!! I am not a unix/linux programmer and I am
clueless about the source of the problem. I have flashed several times,
and Xwindows would work initially, and then when I exit for whatever
reason or reboot, it gives me trouble by crashing.

I use C860, with RC8. Here is what info I can give, since pgas mentioned
this earlier:

# df
Filesystem              1k-block Used Available Use% Mouted on
/dev/mtdblock/2   123904   62924  60980    51% /
none                          12288           16  12272      0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcd/disc0/part1
                                  983580        614560  319056 66% /mnt/card

Once again I give you a listing of the boot-messages. I suspect that
they are important, since the system displays odd behaviour such as
forgetting that I set a root password. It also complained about failure
to determine hostname. Xwindows, when up, runs ok.

Linux version 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix-021129 (sash@tomsk.pdaXrom.org) (gcc vers
ion 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #1 Sun, 26 Dec 2004 03:51:11 +0000
CPU: Intel XScale-PXA255 revision 6
Machine: SHARP Shepherd
Converting old-style param struct to taglist
Memory clock: 99.53MHz (*27)
Run Mode clock: 199.07MHz (*2)
Turbo Mode clock: 398.13MHz (*2.0, active)
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mtdblock2 mtdparts=sharpsl-nand:716
8k@0k(smf),123904k@7168k(root),-(home) jffs2_orphaned_inodes=delete LOGO=1 LAUNC
H=q
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 61856KB available (1988K code, 468K data, 152K init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
BlueZ Core ver 2.4 Copyright © 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
RCSR = 5
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.14)
batok installed
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.1. © 2001, 2002 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications
 AB.
reset resolution unkown => 640x480
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: W100FB frame buffer device
keyboard initilaized.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
SharpSL serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8100000x (irq = 14) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xf8700000x (irq = 12) is a 16550A, using IRDA
ttyS02 at 0xf8200000x (irq = 13) is a 16550A
rs_init: IRDA H/W initializaion
sharpled_init: done.
corgi remote controller
Cotulla Real Time Clock driver v1.00
Cotulla Touch Screen driver initialized
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
PPP BSD Compression module registered
ide_cs.c 1.26 1999/11/16 02:10:49 (David Hinds)
Corgi audio driver initialize
Sharp SL series flash device: 1000000 at 0
Using static partision definition
Creating 1 MTD partitions on "sharpsl-flash":
0x00120000-0x007f0000 : "Filesystem"
NAND device: Manufacture ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x79 (Samsung K9D1G08V0M)
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "Samsung K9D1G08V0M":
0x00000000-0x00700000 : "smf"
0x00700000-0x08000000 : "root"
0x08000000-0x08000000 : "home"
mtd: partition "home" is out of reach -- disabled
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
  options:  [pm]
Intel PXA250/210 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22)
pxa_pcmcia_init(0)
pxa_pcmcia_init(1)
Backlight Driver Initialized.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
BlueZ L2CAP ver 2.3 Copyright © 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
BlueZ RFCOMM ver 1.1
Copyright © 2002 Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>Copyright © 2002 Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
BlueZ BNEP ver 1.2
Copyright © 2001,2002 Inventel Systemes
Written 2001,2002 by Clement Moreau <clement.moreau@inventel.fr>
Written 2001,2002 by David Libault <david.libault@inventel.fr>
Copyright © 2002 Maxim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 © 1998-1999 Rebel.com
IrCOMM protocol (Dag Brattli)
cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: bogus logical sector size 381
Inode #8042 was a directory with children - removing those too...
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing init memory: 152K
jffs2: Too few erase blocks (0)
sdcardmgr: SD card inserted!
SD card manager installed.
SD card manager uninstalled.
[SD]-clustsize = 4000
Partition check:
 mmcda: p1
SD Driver Initialized.
sharp_mmcsd 0.21 27 Sep 2002
ide_attach()
ide_config(0xc3364180)
Trying to free nonexistent resource <f6000000-f600000f>
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
VFS: Disk change detected on device mmcd(60,1)
 mmcd/disc0/disc: p1
devfs_register(part1): could not append to parent, err: -17
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
hda: TOSHIBA THNCF512MBA, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0xf6000008-0xf600000f,0xf600000e on irq 39
hda: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=993/16/63
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
ide_cs: hda: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
usbdm: usbd_monitor 0.3 035 2002-06-12 20:00
monitor_connected: 1
monitor_load:
monitor_hotplug: agent: usbd interface: monitor action: load
usbdcore: usbdcore 0.1 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="")
net_fd 0.1 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="",alwaysup=0,OUT=64,IN=64)
vendorID: 4dd productID: 9031
pxa_bi 0.1-alpha 035 2002-06-12 20:00 (dbg="")
bi_modinit: call udc_startup_events
bi_device_event: call udc_enable
bi_device_event: call udc_all_interrupts
monitor_modinit: finished

Many thanks,

                     Marcus

[MarcusKracht]

I am still trying ...

I issued "X > /tmp/x.out 2>&1"

and then killed the Xserver and listed /tmp/x.out. Here is what it says:

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing
from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpt/,
removing from list!

Any clues as to how to avoid the crashing of Xserver?

-- Marcus

[pgas]

I've check to find any differences, but all message are about the same on my 860.

X crashes when you start it with startx? It crashes after a while when you uses it? what are
the symptoms?  is it crashing or  is it freezing?

[MarcusKracht]

I've check to find any differences, but all message are about the same on my 860.

X crashes when you start it with startx? It crashes after a while when you uses it? what are
the symptoms?  is it crashing or  is it freezing?
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Pgas,

I was able to run xdm, so X is not the problem. Moreover, I used the settings
in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc instead of root's .xinitrc. That workd, but it did not g
give me back the screen of pdaXrom. It seems to me to have to do with the
settings, but I might be wrong. I tried /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.openbox, but
that one was not as nice. I dsend below the .xinitrc that did *not* work. I
tried renaming the files in .matchbox/ but with no success. Maybe you
have an idea.

Many thanks,

                     Marcus

#!/bin/sh
#
# Very simple session manager for matchbox tools
#

test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile

# Uncomment below to enable parsing of debian menu entrys
# export MB_USE_DEB_MENUS=1

if [ -e $HOME/.matchbox/session ]
then
    exec $HOME/.matchbox/session
fi

if [ -e /etc/matchbox/session ]
then
    exec /etc/matchbox/session
fi

if [ ! -d $HOME/Choices/common ]; then
    mkdir -p $HOME/Choices/common
fi

if [ -f $HOME/Choices/lightnpower.cfg ]; then
    lightnpower.py --loadandquit
fi

if [ -f /usr/bin/gconfd-2 ]; then
    /usr/bin/gconfd-2 15 &
fi

test -f /etc/X11/kb/corgi.xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/corgi.xmodmap
test -f /etc/X11/kb/userdefined.xmodmap && xmodmap /etc/X11/kb/userdefined.xmodm
ap
test -f /usr/bin/chkhinge && /usr/bin/chkhinge 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

openbox 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &

touch /tmp/.mb-restart

while [ -f /tmp/.mb-restart ];
do

rm -f /tmp/.mb-restart

if [ -f $HOME/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background ]; then
    MBBGND=`cat $HOME/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background`
else
    MBBGND=""
fi

if [ -f $HOME/.matchbox/mb-panel-orientation ]; then
    MBORIENT=`cat $HOME/.matchbox/mb-panel-orientation`
else
    MBORIENT="--orientation south"
fi

/usr/X11R6/bin/xset s 0

eval "matchbox-desktop $MBBGND" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
eval "matchbox-panel --no-flip $MBORIENT" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

for PID in `ps x | grep "mb-applet-*" | grep -v "grep" | sed 's/^ *//' | cut -f1
 -d' ' -`
do
    kill $PID 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
done

done

GCONF2_PID=`pidof gconfd-2`
if [ ! "$GCONF2_PID" = "" ]; then
    kill $GCONF2_PID
fi

[pgas]

rename your .xinitrc to .xinitrc.old

in a new .xinitrc put

Code: [Select]

exec xterm
Then try one by one what is called in the original .xinitrc:

/usr/bin/chkhinge
openbox &
matchbox-desktop `cat $HOME/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background` &
matchbox-panel --no-flip --orientation south &

And the one before (lightandpower etc...) until you find something that doesn't work.. .

And see if something does not work

[MarcusKracht]

rename your .xinitrc to .xinitrc.old

in a new .xinitrc put

Code: [Select]

exec xterm
Then try one by one what is called in the original .xinitrc:

/usr/bin/chkhinge
openbox &
matchbox-desktop `cat $HOME/.matchbox/mb-desktop-background` &
matchbox-panel --no-flip --orientation south &

And the one before (lightandpower etc...) until you find something that doesn't work.. .

And see if something does not work
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I did as you say. At the end I get a grey screen with an aterm. Nothing more. If I leave out
the exec xterm the again the grey screen stays for three seconds and then X crashes.
Can someone perhaps give me their .xinitrc? Juts to be able to test it. There seems to
be a problem with openbox, but I can't tell where to look for it.

-- Marcus