Bug 2840
| Summary: | X Font Server failure. | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | aeon |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-05-19 15:30:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Have no trouble getting xfs to start automatically here in the office on 6.0 systems. |
The X Font Server (xfs) does not start up properly under the SysV init scripts and must be started manually in order to get X up and running. Under the SysV init scripts, /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs is used to start `xfs'. This script calls daemon() in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions to actually start the `xfs' daemon. This function executes the command: nice -n $nicelevel initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c "su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh" to attempt a startup. This command succeeds, unfortunately, at the basic level. The command su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh will succeed without actually starting `xfs'. I have to manually su xfs xfs exit in order to get the command to run. Perhaps this is an error in /etc/passwd where the default shell is /bin/false (not likely) or that the home directory (configuration directory) is listed as /etc/X11/xfs which does not exist on my system (the most likely cause). I did the "upgrade" path from 5.2 but was not previously running `xfs' (why I need to run it now is a mystery).