Why not just uninstall openoffice.org if there was a conflict on the files it should be solved by rpm -e it Alex Janssen said: > Bernd Eilers wrote: > >> >> Hi Alex, >> >> Well, I don´t have a Fedore Core 3 here but from general Unix >> knowlegde this looks like a problem with the global XSession script ( >> usually in /etc/X11/xdm, if you don´t find it there look up the >> location in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config ) or with the users >> $HOME/.xsession script. > > What could that problem be? I look at the contents of that file and > can't tell if anythings wrong or not. > >> Normally after logging in the xdm (or kdm if you use KDE ) program, >> that is the one presenting the login box, starts XStartup as root and >> than the XSession script as user. The xdm program detects that the X >> session ends when the XSession script ends. The XSession script in >> /etc/X11/xdm usually looks if a $HOME/.xsession script exists and >> starts that if it´s present. In your case it looks like the user root >> has a working $HOME/.xsession script and others not. What is usually >> done in $HOME/.xsession or in /etc/X11/xdm/XSession if $HOME/.xsession >> is not present is that some X11 programs are started in the background >> and than at the end one last X11 program is started in the foreground >> so that xdm can wait for this one to end to detect that the session >> has ended. This last program is normally the window manager. The >> mistake that seems to happen in your case is that everything which is >> started there is being started in the background and there is no >> program left to wait for. See the manual for xdm(1) for details. Or it >> could be wrong permissions on $HOME/.xsession or something alike. > > How can I tell if this is true or not on my system? I didn't see > anything obvious to me in any Xsession file. > >> I am not sure wether OOo installation tries to do something with >> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or $HOME/.xsession. If it is reproducable that >> OOo installation messes one of those files up on Fedora please file an >> issue on issuzilla >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html > > I can't imagine why the OOo install process would mess with this stuff. > I think this is a fluke. If I do get it fixed I will have to try > re-installing, but I'll cry if it does this again. :-( > >> >> Kind regards, >> Bernd Eilers > > Thanks for the kind offer of help, but this is really getting to be over > my head at this time. I will need to do a lot of homework to understand > what you speak of. > > I looked in /var/log/messages, but I didn't see anything I thought was > unusual. > > I don't understand what could have happened during the installation > process. Some kind of corruption, obviously. But, I need some clue in > order to fix this. It seems related to something more basic than Gnome > or KDE, something that underlies them. > > I think posting to a Redhat forum might be in order here. :-\ > > Alex > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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