can't (re)start X, may be hal related

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Robert Huff wrote:

> 	Following up:
> 	Rebuilt and restarted hal this morning; also rebuilt
> xorg-server to use hal.
> 	Attempted to use xdm again with the same result.

So it's not a hal problem.

> 	However: the (EE) line is gone from Xorg.0.log.
> 	I am now looking at this from the end of xdm.log:
>
> XIO:  fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
>      after 169 requests (131 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> xdm error (pid 10712): Display :0 is being disabled

Those are "normal" errors.  Running glxgears from a console and closing 
the gear window with the mouse produces them, too.