On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 15:07, William Warren wrote: > > OK, here's mine: > > -rw------- 1 root root 115 Mar 6 03:04 .Xauthority > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57 Mar 5 16:39 .Xclients-default > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1126 Aug 23 1995 .Xresources > -rw------- 1 root root 1352 Mar 5 20:51 .xsession-errors >
what is in .Xclients-default? try renaming it. > Of course, ".xsession-errors" tends to draw the eye ;-J, but in order > to get a "clean" error report, I renamed the file and tried to startx > again. I entered "startx" as root, and it hanged just like before, > but THERE WAS NO .xsession-errors FILE GENERATED. > > That means that the .xsession-errors file was from the time that I > got into x by changing the /etc/inittab to run level 5: be warned > that it may or may not be useful. Anyway, here it is: bummer, no help. > > > > ps may help too. > > > > a snip from ps axfw. (I started x from an xterm using startx -- :1) > > [snip example ps output. Here's mine, obtained by startx from a user > account.] > > 1225 ? S 0:00 login -- root > 1465 tty2 S 0:00 \_ -bash > 1226 ? S 0:00 login -- bill > 1596 tty3 S 0:00 \_ -bash > 1638 tty3 S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > 1651 tty3 S 0:00 \_ xinit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- > 1652 ? S< 0:07 \_ X :0 > 1656 tty3 S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/gnome-session what does this look like as root? I am betting that gnome-session is not running. > > Bret, that's all I can think of right now: thanks for your help. > we are reaching the end of my skills. This should not be that hard. Did you say that you ran this from rl 5? did it work for root then? hang in there. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
