Need help with spontaneous failure

[Brad Cox]

Yes. Edited .xinitrc to use twm instead of xfwm and the 
mouse/keyboard worked fine. I've checked the logs and google 
carefully and this really doesn't look like a kernel problem. I think 
the char-major log entry is triggered by cups and isn't related to 
this.

At 10:30 AM -0500 7/23/02, Thomas R. Shannon wrote:
>Do other window managers work?
>
>Tom S.
>
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>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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