Need help with spontaneous failure

[Thomas R. Shannon]

Do other window managers work?

Tom S.

-- 
Quote of the Day for July 23, 2002
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
            -- H. L. Mencken

netllama at linux-sxs.org writes:
 > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Brad Cox wrote:
 > > I've been using xfce on RedHat 7.0 quite happily until yesterday,
 > > when the keyboard and mouse suddenly stopped working in xfce. The
 > > console itself, of course, works fine but nada once startx does its
 > > thing. This happened spontaneously; no crashes, system tinkering,
 > > etc, so I'm a bit disoriented as to exactly where to start. Might not
 > > even be xfce's fault, but that's where the problem appears.
 > >
 > > I restarted the system and checked the log file. Found this message repeated
 > > many (15) times
 > > Jul 23 07:27:55 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4
 > >
 > > locate char-major doesn't find anything. So I'm stuck as to what to
 > > try next. Can someone put me on the right track? Thanks!
 > 
 > char-major-4 are the virtual consoles.  Sounds like your box is trashed
 > pretty badly.  Did you delete/change anything lately?  You sure you
 > haven't been haxored?
 > 
 > 
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