On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:05:38PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:43:13PM -0300, Mike G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hi, > > I'm running potato, and when I try to startx I get something like > > password: > > password: > <...> > > Any one got any idea of this? > > PS: I interrupt it happily with ^C > > Look for a 'su' or 'sudo' call in your init scripts, ~/.xinitrc or > /etc/X11/Xsession.
no match for this > Try passing an explicit client argument to startx, e.g.: > > $ startx xterm > > ...and report if it still prompts for a password. still the problem persists. I also tried as root, no results.