On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:10:57PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:50, William Warren wrote: [snip]
> > I'm running a Dell Dimension with an S3 Virge card, 128 MB Ram, and 9 > > GB SCSI HD. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940. > > (Added 3/5) I'm running RH 7.3. > > > > The root user lost its X desktop during one of the up2date runs. It > > used to be there, but now it's gone. Other users are not affected. > > > > When I enter "startx" at the command prompt, I see the gray > > crosshatch background that usually preceeds my desktop, but then > > everything stalls with the mouse pointer showing as an "X" in the > > screen. I can move the mouse or change screen resolutions, but the > > desktop never appears. > > > > I have to explicitly kill the server (Cntl-Alt-Backspace) to get back to > > the command prompt. There are no error messages shown. > > > > Google hasn't been my friend on this. All suggestions welcome. > > > > Bill > > When you're at the console as "root", what about trying: > > switchdesk windowmaker > > ...then trying to run "startx" again? If that works, then you can do: > > switchdesk kde > > or > > switchdesk gnome > > ...and try to get back into X, ay? > -- > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kuhn Media Australia Steve, Sorry, no luck: the 'switchdesk' utility completed normally, but when I do 'startx', it's the same gray background and nothing else but the mouse pointer. Bill -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
