Re: [ydl-gen] Boot error: USB hub

angelo <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:38:48 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robert Spykerman ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:50 AM, angelo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Thank you very much Derick for your effort, but I used the same USB hub also
>> previously, and udev didn't complain. Thus, it shouldn't be the reason why
>> now it does. You haven't told me what this error message means. Thanks,
>>     
>
> what's the exact message? ( ie /var/log/dmesg - should be there I
> think... the X one I can't remember...)
>
> Also, are you very sure its udev that's causing the problem? The
> default YDL boots to X you see.
>
> It might be coming from one of the startup scripts I think. xmodmap
> (the executable) is part of X which sets your keyboard map etc...
>
> I noticed you typed Xmodmap - and you referred to /etc/X11 -  you
> possibly may be referring to the default config file which I think X
> parses as it starts.
>
> In which case I have a hypothesis - the file might have been corrupted
> in that inadvertent system shutdown.
>
> Perhaps someone here with a lot more X knowledge can help. Maybe  'man
> xmodmap' - there might be more info there.
>
> This also begs another question: if one file is corrupt, what else could be?
>
> I would suggest making frequent backups of your linux install just in
> case something gets really messed up - I experiment a lot, you see, so
> I do ;)
>
>   
>> Angelo.
>>     
>
> Robert Spykerman
>
>   
Hi Robert and thanks for your concern about my problem. The exact 
message is: error at "! /etc/X11/Xmodmap". Thanks in advance, Angelo

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