I am a bit at lost. Maybe it is not an X bug after all. Could you try with moving ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc in a backup directory before retrying startx with 'leszek'.
As your new user won't have those, it may explain why it works as 'blah'. You X logs show nothing wrong (the drm thing at the end is just X cleaning up before closing). About: >Fatal server error: >Cannot move old log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old you can try to move them (old and not old one) from /var/log/ and retry though as told it is pretty weird (at best i would see it as an unrelated bug, or maybe your /var partition is full, the file is an a corrupted disk cluster ... though gdm would fails too as this file is always moved whatever you use to start X !). Can you also try xinit instead of startx ? It will help to check the problem is in X as it just start X and an xterminal (you can close X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or just exit in the xterminal) Cheers Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]