X crash

From: Carlos A M dos Santos <casantos_at_cpmet.ufpel.tche.br>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:17:21 +0000 (GMT)

Hello, managers

This morning I got a strange X bahavior in one of our Alphas:

        DEC 3000/800
        DU 3.2
        128MB RAM
        PMAG-D (PXG) graphics card

When I try to start xdm (/sbin/init.d/xdm start), the cursor moves into
the screen from bottom to top some times and I come back to the shell
prompt. I found the following messages in /var/X11/xdm/xdm-errors:


---8<---
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
N10 stopped
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/kernel860
Loading uKernel T=0x4840 D=0x1a000
Moving uKernel T=0x7480 -> D=0x1b480
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/gacc860
AllocTextShm(): shmget() failed:: No space left on device
error (pid 4128): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
error (pid 3248): Display :0 cannot be opened
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
N10 stopped
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/kernel860
Loading uKernel T=0x4840 D=0x1a000
Moving uKernel T=0x7480 -> D=0x1b480
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/gacc860
AllocTextShm(): shmget() failed:: No space left on device
error (pid 3497): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
error (pid 3248): Display :0 cannot be opened
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
N10 stopped
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/kernel860
Loading uKernel T=0x4840 D=0x1a000
Moving uKernel T=0x7480 -> D=0x1b480
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/gacc860
AllocTextShm(): shmget() failed:: No space left on device
error (pid 5497): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
error (pid 3248): Display :0 cannot be opened
Creating DECnet socket: Protocol not supported
N10 stopped
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/kernel860
Loading uKernel T=0x4840 D=0x1a000
Moving uKernel T=0x7480 -> D=0x1b480
Done reading /usr/lib/ucode/gacc860
AllocTextShm(): shmget() failed:: No space left on device
error (pid 23712): IO Error in XOpenDisplay
error (pid 3248): Display :0 cannot be opened
error (pid 3248): Display :0 is being disabled
---8<---

What is the meaning of the "No space left on device"? I have lots of free
disk and swap space!

We do not use DECnet, just TCP/IP.

Thanks

Carlos Augusto Moreira dos Santos casantos_at_cpmet.ufpel.tche.br
Universidade Federal de Pelotas Centro de Pesquisas Meteorologicas
Av Ildefonso Simoes Lopes, 2751 Telefone (0532)23-2525
Pelotas, RS, Brasil FAX (0532)23-4814
CEP 96060-290 http://cpmet.ufpel.tche.br

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Received on Tue Jul 29 1997 - 16:36:47 NZST

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