Hi,
Check the permissions on /tmp - usually if something will work for root
but nobody else it's a permission problem. /tmp should look like this:
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Apr 15 01:02 /tmp
Good Luck!
Deke
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I'm not sure what I did; I was upgrading some Ghostview and Ghostscript
> RPM's recently, I've been trying to get IPX to run, and I did have a
> Netscape crash which let to a somewhat unexpected Xwindows crash, but
> other than that I don't think I've done much to screw up my system. Like
> that's not enough ;)
>
> The problem is, if I try to run Xwindows as any user other then root, it
> appears to run (no errors on the tty where I run startx at least -- does
> X keep an error log somewhere other than under /var/log?) but it gets
> stuck right at the point where the first background screen comes up and
> the mouse cursor is all by itself on the screen. Xwindows isn't hung
> completely; I can move the mouse around, but it never gets any further
> than the blank screen.
>
> I do notice that under /tmp there is a file, owned by root (dated the
> last time I ran Xwindows as root) named fvwmrca0167. The number part
> varies from one run of Xwindoes to the next. When I try to run Xwindows
> as any other user, the file gets created, but it's empty; nothing is
> being read in.
>
> My question is, what is the source of this file? And does anybody know
> what would happen that might prevent it from being built the right way?
>
> Oh yeah, and I do NOT have xdm running in rc.local. I learned that
> lesson.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> m
>
>
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