On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > > I had this same problem (the error, not the solution proposed above), when > > i had improperly restored a RH9 install from backups, and the > > perms/ownership of alot of stuff was horked. Check the list archives, > > cause i'm pretty sure that i posted my solution. This was about 3 or 4 > > months back (like May). > > > > Hmmm... I'll look there, cuz, well, I'm having a similar issue with gdm > not starting properly after an upgrade via apt-get. I've worked around > the problem by switching from the graphical greeter to the standard > greeter, but I'd like to go back to the graphical greeter (well, not me, > per se, but my better half...) > > My problem seems different from Allan's in that I could execute startx > from the command line and get an X session going. I don't think he's > been able to do that.
Thinking back to my problem, i think initially it was that X wouldn't start, and then I could get X to start, but couldn't open new windows. It all was a result of various unix sockets not working due to broken permissions. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
