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Old 07-25-2007
Xwindows wont start

I have one machince where X crashes with some weird error on boot...

Fatal server error:
Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"

This is running redhat enterprise ES 3, I cant figure out how to get past this error. I have tried deleting the logfiles and recreating them, however i still cant find why its doing this.

Frank
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Old 07-26-2007
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Originally Posted by frankkahle
I have one machince where X crashes with some weird error on boot...

Fatal server error:
Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"

This is running redhat enterprise ES 3, I cant figure out how to get past this error. I have tried deleting the logfiles and recreating them, however i still cant find why its doing this.

Frank

mabe you have a permissons problem... try to give 777 permissions to /var/log
"chmod 777 /var/log"
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