| Summary: | xfs prevents fifth X server from starting | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | James Manning <jmm> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
| 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: | 2000-02-03 21:53:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | ||
in /etc/X11/fs/config, change the line client-limit = 4 with the number of X Sessions you want to have simultneously. or change clone-self=off to clone-self=on. This will be the new default in 6.2. |
Stock RH 6.1, XF86_SVGA server, gdm, as root (just to make sure it wasn't perms) from a text screen, startx -- :{1,2,3} all work fine, starting up an X server on vt's {8,9,10} respectively. doing the startx -- :4 to start a fifth server, the screen blanks like it's starting X, then it dies and kicks back to the text vt, with the messages: failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Out of curiosity, I stop'd and start'd xfs and then :4 worked fine (this will probably break fonts on :{0,1,2,3} though :) I can't find anything in the xfs docs about a limitation to four X servers, so I'm unsure of how to fix this. This is on a user's machine (board designer) and he claims that the capability to start 6 X sessions worked fine in RH 6.0 and only after the 6.1 reinstall (fresh install, no upgrade) did it fail.