Dear friends, sorry to have bothered you but I found that something was wrong just wit the /tmp directory which turned out to be owned by root only as rw while other users were only allowed to read. I've fixed this ownership and now Gnome works. Why this happened I don't know exactly. Perhaps it was due to the fact that I copied a working woody installation from my laptop to a different partition of my desktop through the command "cp -a .......".
Ciao Vittorio Vittorio [debian-user] <20/10/01 23:33 +0000>: > I've just installed woody with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4, all from scratch. > > I've had some problems to launch X because issuing "startx" linux has > been complaining that X was not executable. I've relinked X (which > pointed to a non existent xserver_svga) to XFree86 and it all worked > properly AS ROOT. > > Unfortunately, under a newly-defined user (dada) X invariably fails to > start. Now I've tried with the classical .xinitrc & .xsession with > the only line "gnome-session" to no avail. > > What's wrong with it and what should I do or check? > > Vittorio > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
