Need help with spontaneous failure

[Olivier Fourdan]

Brad,

In case, remove ~/.xfce/xfwm-session so that if an application causes
your system to freeze, it won't be restarted autimatically by the
session mgr.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:57, 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!
> -- 
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