xfs

Chuck Mead csm at lunar-linux.org
Wed Aug 13 22:20:13 GMT 2003


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johnlowell wrote:
| Yesterday I installed XFree86 on this thing. At the beginning of the
| install I recall being offered an option to start something like  xfs on
| boot. It was in yellow. Thinking that the reference may have had
| something to do with booting directly into X without my having to invoke
| it with the command startx, I entered "n" and went on.  At boot, I now
| have the line "Stopping xfs:  not running  [ WARN  ]  right after
| "INIT:  entering run level 3". Huh? What in heavens name is this anyway?
| Is this a reference to the XFS file system?  I disabled XFS in the
| kernel and want nothing to do with it.  Does X start the XFS file system
| at boot or something? I've never seen this before and don't know what's
| at issue. Can someone help?

xfs in this case is referring to the x font server


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csm
Lunar Project Lead
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