Need help with spontaneous failure

[Brad Cox]

Thanks, Olivier. That fixed it!

At 10:35 PM +0200 7/23/02, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>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!
>>  --
>>  Brad Cox, PhD; bcox at virtualschool.edu 703 361 4751
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Brad Cox, PhD; bcox at virtualschool.edu 703 361 4751
o For industrial age goods there were checks and credit cards.
    For everything else there is http://virtualschool.edu/mybank
o Java Web Application Architecture: http://virtualschool.edu/jwaa
o Ruby Interactive Learning Environment http://virtualschool.edu/ile