On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:25, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Well, for some odd reason, I can't "startx" with my root account. I can login, > su, anything like that. If I do a "startx", it goes thru the Nvidia splash > screen, then the KDE startup stuff, then I get a busy cursor that never > resolves. My normal user account works fine. > > This is on a newly installed (not updated) v9.1 download edition of Mandrake. > > Thanks!
Delete the .kde directory and any .gnome* directories in the /root account and try again; as well, you might want to make sure you've got Xtart installed - and try that... -- Tue Jun 3 08:35:00 EST 2003 08:35:00 up 3 days, 17:44, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.14, 0.16 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * /* * For moronic filesystems that do not allow holes in file. * We may have to extend the file. */ 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c
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