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

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Robert Huff wrote:

>
> Warren Block writes:
>
>>  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.
>
> 	Which leaves this back where it was: broken, with no path to
> diagnosis.

The next step would be to disable xdm and see if starting and restarting 
X with startx has the same problem.