X won't come up on C2

[John Watlington]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:

> On 10/24/07 04:28, John Watlington wrote:
>> We are having an impossible time getting X to come up on C2 machines.
>> And X takes forever to stop trying to come up when we switch to  
>> init  level 3.
>
> I've never seen a C2 machine yet.  What are the relevant
> hardware changes?

None.  Testers in Cambridge should be seeing the same problems!
The only difference should be that these machines didn't go through
the full "write manufacturing data" process.
That is why I'm spooked by this !

> And, what build are you using?  Trial3 is X 1.3, joyride is
> X 1.4.

Trial3 (build 617, to be more exact.)

> If it's Trial3, try this:
>
>  umount /home/olpc/.Xauthority
>
> Nobody I asked really understood why, but it fixes a lot of
> strange "X not starting" problems people reported to me by
> random people.
>
> So I made .Xauthority a plain file in joyride (I still have
> to move to a writable location such as /tmp).

If this is due to new security "features", I once again plead for
those features to be removed from the builds...
We are about to build 10K laptops that won't boot X!

wad