Xserver problem

[Brunner_5]

Dear experts
From one day to another my Xserver dont want start. In the /var/dt/Xerrors I can see:

server loader: Unable to open device read/write /dev/crt.
...
Fatal server error: server rejected last DLD broker bidding on screen entries X0screens.
...
Fatal IO error 232 on X server

Does someone has any idea what the problem could be????

[Alex Glennie]

Does the local system have a graphics card ?
check with ioscan -fnC graphics
If yes : I'd suggest you have problems with the devise files :

cd /dev
rmsf *crt*
insf -evd framebuf :

result ?

can you run graphinfo and let us know the graphics card and model of h/w it's installed in.

If no graphics card locally you may want to see the contents of /usr/dt/config/Xservers : see last line telling the server to start X locally.

you may want to hash it out if there's no local graphics devise : beaware to copy it to /etc/dt/config/Xservers first though

[Steven E. Protter]

I'm wondering if it ever actually worked?

is the first variable in /etc/rc.config.d/xfs set to 1 so the font server fires up at boot?

SEP

[Brunner_5]

Dear experts

Yes, this workstation has a graphics card. It's a VisualizeC200. ioscan -fnC graphics shows:
graphics 0 10/12 graph3 CLAIMED INTERFACE Graphics

RUN_X_FONT_SERVER in xfs was already set to one.

rmsf *crt*, insf -evd framebuf and reboot did not helped!

graphinfo shows:
unable to open the device file at /dev/crt.

Any other hints?

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

What are the rights on /dev/crt? (ls -ld /dev/crt)
And as who are you trying to run graphinfo?
Perhaps some other process is locking the device, even after a reboot (started before X is started): 'fuser /dev/crt' might give more info.

Just shots in the dark, but perhaps a lucky shot for your problem...

[Alex Glennie]

OK how long has this been occuring ... ?

Anything in dmesg ?

what's the O/S here ?

what's the current maxusers level set to ? has it been increased recently ?

perms on /dev/*crt* are ?

please run /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt result ?

Do you know the graphics card type ...Vis EG ?

did graphinfo core ? file core = ?

maybe worth installing latest Xserver patches ... how recent is you patch level ?

swlist -l fileset -a state show any problems ?

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Check dmesg and syslog

What is the date of your vmunix file.

Has anybody changed anything there

Does name resolution work

Does /usr/contrib/bin/X11/dr_dt show anything


Steve Steel

[Brunner_5]

Dear experts

Before I'm checking one million more things, is it possible that there is a hardware failure?

Konrad

[Brunner_5]

dmesg shows:

framebuf_open(): framebuf_getlockpg() failed!
framebuf_open(): framebuf_getlockpg() failed!

Konrad

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Could be. dmesg could report that, messages in syslog.log could indicate it, and it might be visible with stm. But since you got the card reported with ioscan after the reboot, it seems the card is still working (if not, it would have shown up as NO_HW or even not at all).

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Brunner,

Check this doc, I think you are running out of memory.

Document description: CDE fails to come up on Console; framebuf_open() msg appears in syslog
Document id: 2200229978

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062903845

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Steve Steel]

Hi

I agree with the memory thing.

That is why i asked for the date of the
kernel

You have a memory problem.


Steve Steel

[Brunner_5]

Dear experts

Thanks to all helped solving this problem. It was a memory problem! I had to reconfigure the kernel (maxusers, nproc, ...).

Thanks a lot EXPERTS!!!