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fearby

10-21-2001, 01:32 PM

X crashes on me and I cannot read the console as it does so.How can I output the messages flashed up to a text file to read after resarting X?

Nothing too complicated I hope... :(
fearby@nildram.co.uk

MrNewbie

10-21-2001, 01:37 PM

startx &> err.log

fearby

10-21-2001, 01:44 PM

:(

So I type startx &> err.log and on the next line tuxracer and X crashes.
Where do I find the file to look at?

Strike

10-21-2001, 01:50 PM

err.log in the directory you started it from

X_console

10-21-2001, 02:10 PM

A log file is also kept at /var/log/

fearby

10-21-2001, 03:31 PM

Brilliant!
This is the message I get:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

If I do remove this it makes no difference....

:mad:

[ 21 October 2001: Message edited by: fearby ]