[rescue] Feeling X impared

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:12:07AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> So, I've managed to screw up X on my Ultra 1 Creator once again, but I'm
> not sure how, nor how to fix it.  I'm quite sure that I've not messed
> around with the hostname for this box at all.  I was working away in X,
> clicked something and it crashed, leaving me at a console login prompt. 
> I rebooted, mostly because I can't type (wrong init level), and now all
> I get is "The X-server can not be started on display :0...". 
> /usr/openwin/bin/openwin seems to get me logged in to openwindows, but
> /usr/dt/bin/Xsession doesn't get me into CDE.  /etc/init.d/dtlogin
> doesn't get me to a dtlogin screen either.  If I run it after killing
> the old dtlogin process, it prints the same errors that I get on boot.  
> 
> Can somebody point me in the right direction on a FM to read, or provide
> some debugging pointers?  Thanks much,

There should be some messages being printed in error logs somewhere.  Look
at what files get updated under /var/log when an instance of the error
occurs.  That is where I start for diagnosing most problems.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd