Need help with spontaneous failure

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Brad,

Good to know. Now, finding the offending application is left as an
exercise to the reader ;-)

Cheers,
OlivieR.

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 23:37, Brad Cox wrote:
> 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
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>     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
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XFce is a lightweight  desktop  environment  for  various *NIX systems. 
Designed for productivity,  it loads  and  executes  applications fast,
while conserving  system resources. XFce is all free software, released
under GNU General Public License.    Available from http://www.xfce.org