Trevor....sorry I tipped you to a technique that has caused you
trouble! I use this method to temporarily become root in a
second xsession all the time. I've never had any problems with
it. So I'm sorry also, that I've no helpful suggestions for
you.
Alan
Trevor Farrell wrote:
>
> OK, I don't know what is going on, but this is my 6th attempt at getting
>
> this through to the list! I've tried different mailservers, using "new
> msg"
> & "reply", and several changes of text/subject. Other emails are going
> out OK, just not this
> one! My apologies if the floodgates suddenly burst and all 6 hit the
> list.
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Sean....that has been doable for a long time. Use this syntax:
> > 'startx -- :x'. Your original session defaults to x=0, the next
> > should be x=1 etc. Ctl-alt f7-f12 accesses the x-sessions
> > whereas ctl-alt f1-f6 accesses the consoles you started the
> > x-sessions in.
> >
>
> Well, I thought this was too good to be true, so I tried it...
>
> Logged onto tty2 as root, did startx -- :1 and was real impressed to see
>
> KDE start up as root. Yes, Ctrl-Alt-F7 took me back to KDE logged in as
> me. WOW it worked (so far...).
>
> Then, Ctrl-Alt-F8 took me to a black screen - keyboard num-lock light
> went out, tried every key combo I could think of to get some response,
> even a num-lock or caps-lock light would have been good, but the only
> thing that worked was Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot - with the screen dead, the
>
> system appeared to shut down properly- plenty of drive action - but no
> reboot - so I had to use the power switch (shades of M$ Windows...).
>
> When I restarted the box, it reported that the disc was not unmounted
> cleanly & did its checking - finally giving a status of "passed".
> Everything works normally now, except that when I'm logged into KDE as
> me, no icons & I can't execute programs - the panel & K menus are there,
>
> but only a few items (like logout) work. I can't open a terminal,
> refresh icons/desktop or anything. logging out & logging back in using
> gnome instead of KDE works (thats how I'm sending this) but I prefer
> KDE. Kde still works if I log in as root, just not as me!
>
> Well, I hate to admit it, but I don't even know where to start looking,
> so can someone please tell me what to do to get things back!
>
> Trevor
