Another way to save the day is to remove the user that he is running
startx from, and then add the user back again, This will also rebuild
the KDE desktop for that user.
Don ....
Civileme wrote:
>
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > For some unknown reason, the StartX in the Console keeps hanging forever
> > instead of taking me directly to KDE, as it usually does. I have tried
> > for the past hour doing a soft reboot, then a cold reboot (disconnecting
> > the system), Cnt + C, then retyping the command on the new prompt line.
> > I made sure that my printer is off when booting, etc. Nothing works. The
> > StartX command, after being typed, just hangs forever. I tried the same
> > thing as root. Same thing happens as user or as root. The StartX command
> > is in /usr/X11R6/bin/StartX. I have had a problem with the Startx
> > command on occasion before, but now it just won't work under any
> > circumstances.
> >
> > Would appreciate if someone could troubleshoot this.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Benjamin
> > --
> > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sher's Russian Web
> > http://www.websher.net
>
> Just guessing, if it is 7.0-2, likely your font server is dead.
> The font server makes a couple of symlinks to files in
> directories in /tmp (very weak idea--nowadays they use /root/tmp
> in hydrogen), and if you executed some process which wiped /tmp,
> you may have physically deleted the files the symlinks point to.
> The solution is to reinstall X... Very little else should be
> perturbed.
>
> and I do mean reinstall
>
> rpm -q XF* to locate the packages
> and
> rpm -e to remove them
>
> Maybe someone else has an easier way, but I have never sorted
> through the tangle of script and code to find one.
>
> Civileme
