In article <20020730052256.7BAD24B23@coconut.itojun.org>,
	itojun@iijlab.net writes:
> 	hmm, a reboot saved me from the situation.  not sure what happened.

I had this problem, too. After updating to a newer kernel X11 didn't start
anymore. After the next reboot the problem was gone and didn't show up again.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/