tlug: mysterious X core / namazu

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

When I opened up my laptop this morning, apmd kicked 
in and X crashed, leaving me in the console. I didn't 
notice any helpful error messages on the screen at that 
time (but I only had one eye open) and there 
was nothing helpful in /var/log/messages. Bringing up X
again with startx, I found that everything was as it 
should be (my setup brings up KDE and a few xterms and 
kterms) 

BUT, I had only two of four virtual screens. Killing 
X with the three-finger salute (backspace not delete), 
I wound up in the console again and became the proud 
owner of a core file. This situation repeats itself 
everytime I bring up and kill X, even after rebooting. 

I looked around for possible causes but didn't 
find much; course, not really knowing what to 
look for doesn't help much. 

I did notice that in /etc/fstab, the /proc line read 
"none      /proc  proc  defaults 0  0 " 
so I changed the "none" to "proc". 

I also commented out 
"/sbin/hdparm -c1 /dev/hda  # first IDE drive assumed"
which I had added as the last line of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . 
(is that not the right place for it?)

I also noticed something like the following error which 
appears when Linux boots: 

"remote filesystems.mount 
Port mapper failure
RPC cannot send" 

(this error message disappears; I can't see it when I shift pageup 
from the console prompt, nor does it appear in dmesg. this means 
I have to try to frantically jot it down when it rolls by the 
first time on bootup. anyway to make this error message get 
recorded somewhere?)

I am assuming that the above error is related to the fact that 
I have an nfs line in /etc/fstab/ . Don't know how to fix whatever 
is causing this, but have the feeling it is not the root of the 
mysterious X core/only two virtual screen problem.  

which persists. 

Any hints would be very much appreciated. 

-----------------------------

I have been fiddling around with namazu and found that it doesn't 
want to index files that are larger than 5M (I have a few of those). 
Is there anyway to force it to index larger files without changing 
the file size limit in the source and recompiling? 

* I am receiving this digest version of this list, so would 
appreciate it if anyone who posts a comment or advice would 
kindly cc it to laszlo@example.com . 

Thanks! 

 



--------------------------------------------------------------------
Next Nomikai Meeting: February 18 (Fri) 19:00 Tengu TokyoEkiMae
Next Technical Meeting:  March 11 (Sat) 13:00 Temple University Japan
* Topic: TBD
--------------------------------------------------------------------
more info: http://www.tlug.gr.jp        Sponsor: Global Online Japan