> >
> > In theory devices/fifos etc should work - but I am not surprised if we have
> > problems. We need to narrow down exactly what is not working. If you set
> > your default run level to something which does not run X (level 3 on redhat
,
> > so I suspect mandrake is the same) and then do a startx and capture the
> > output in a file it might tell us something.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steve
>
> I suspect the problem is related to the handling of sockets. The reasons bein
g:
>
> 1) When I rsync the root filesystem to xfs - I received some error messages
> about
> some files - when I checked these are sockets.
> 2) When gdm startup, it will start a X server and when try to contact it
> through
> the socket in /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
> 3) The attached messages from /var/log/messages from the failed XFS partition
> indicate that syslogd is having problem with sockets too (or so
> I assumed....)
>
OK, named pipies and sockets were working at one point, they
are currently broken - it will not let you create them, someone
seems to have changed mknod and forgot about anything but block and char
devices...
I have a fix which turns them back on, I will clean it up and send it
out tomorrow.
Steve
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