Re: X server dying 99-pre1 and pre2

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 11:45:28 EST


It did this to me on a system that did not have enough memory.

Jeff

Walter Zimmer wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> Just my experience I had with pre3 and then pre1:
>
> Hardware is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4220.
> Mobile Pentium III 450, 440BX
>
> I compiled Kernel 99-pre3, enabled Interrupt sharing for PCI IDE,
> enabled DMA and PIIX support. Reboot, everyone is happy, X starts -
> boom, shuts down, reboots. While booting my fs got corrupted
> in such a way that fsck suggested to manually do the fsck. Well,
> I rebootet with 2.2.14, the fsck repaired, but run through, no
> problem.
>
> I tried 99-pre1 because I have it running on another laptop with
> 440BX and interrupt sharing - no problems. Well, no luck, same
> behavior. So I switched off IDE options until I had disabled PIIX
> options, DMA and interrupt sharing, and with the latter it didn't
> currupt the fs any more. Didn't try enabling DMA since im frustrated
> enough for now :)
>
> Unfortunately, my kdm/X server won't start under pre1 (as it didn't
> under 99pre3 the first time). /var/shm exists, BTW.
> ext2_fs complains about "bad entry in directory blah".
>
> So, what's the roadmap to isolate the error ? Could it bee that the
> fs is still corrupted which causes the error messages and X won't
> start because of this, although fsck doesn't complain ?
>
> So Im a bit clueless about the 'clean' way to isolate the error.
>
> Can someone provide some help, please ?
>
> Regards,
> Walter
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