X server problems

[Paul King]

Looks like a bad Clocks line that caused X to crash. Yes, I recall adding the 
line, because I didn't like the default behaviour of X, which was to make an 
1168x864 screen with half-inch borders. I obtained a valid Modeline from 
XVidtune, but forgetting, I used it as a Clocks line. 

Is there a "Debian" way of changing the hostname of the machine? It appears as 
though editing /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts isn't enough. That is probably what 
is causing the "connection refused" error. 

Paul King

> Hello
> 
> Thanks to Fraser for helping out with the distro I had been using (Debian 
> Woody). I tried to upgrade it to Sarge, but there were too many package 
> problems, so I decided to install Sarge fresh on newly-formatted /usr and root
> directories.
> 
> I have a new problem, however. It has to do with the X server. I thought I fixed
> a "no screens found" problem, and had been using X for several hours yesterday,
> but then I had a problem starting new xterms from the GNOME menus. Then, when I
> tried to start an xterm from an existing xterm, I got the error "connection to
> :0.0 refused". And that was starting it as the same user that owns the X
> session. Even the command "xhost +" generated the same error.
> 
> I thought I should log off and restart the server. So, I logged off, and 
> restarted the server. I found that not only would the server not restart, but
> the dialog (a Debconf dialog, if I recall) it led me to gave a "no screens
> found" error again from the X server. Debconf said it will "disable" the server
> until the problem is fixed. Great. 
> 
> <opining>
> Whatever happened to the days when you just ran an X server to test your 
> XF86Config and then looked at the error messages? I can't understand what 
> problem adding this extra layer of techno-bureaucracy is supposed to solve in
> order to supposedly make my life easier. By that, I mean I fail to see what
> problem I am being helped with when a script disables a server because it
> doesn't like my configuration. I would much rather have the thing crash so I can
> check things out on my own. </opining>
> 
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