How to purge remove cleanly a damaged X server from a working station running on debian lenny amd64?
Failure of one (or two) slot(s) of kingston 400 DDR1 ECC on the multisocket workstation prevents running startx, presumably by corrupting files related to X. My work around did not resolve the issue. Therefore, I would like to remove completely the X server without leaving broken packages (using aptitude?). This would be the first step to reinstall X. I rarely use X, except to check the molecular structure for certain input files to molecular mechanics software. In this case X is important, not to go on blindly. I have been advised to carry out a fresh install of linux. I would like to avoid that because of so many compilations to carry out. Incidentally, it is my impression that such software as memtest86+ v. 2.11 and lshw find difficult to test such multisocket mainboards as supermicro H8QC8. Once the damaged slots were replaced with Patriot 400 DDR1 ECC, both bios and top detect all the RAM installed, whic corresponds to all DIMMs filled. Both lshw and memtest report four DIMMs empty; this would correspond to 20GB instead of the 24 GB installed. memtest also reports 23GB total and cached. Clearly, memtest is confused. Or I am. Thanks francesco pietra _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
