{Q} Several Questions on X
Hello, I have debian-hamm as of Dec. 19, (everything is libc6) installed. I cannot seem to get X to work when I am not root. It tells me that only root can run the server. I thought that there might be something wrong with permissions, so I reinstalled x-server-s3v. It installed OK with one error saying something about MAKEDEV cannot do something. I still can run X as root but not as a regular user. I changed /etc/X11/config to allow anybody to login, and I tried 'console' -- still did not help. What could I be doing wrong? Another Question I have is how to make a background image (JPG or BMP) to appear when I start my X session. BTW, I did try to comment out and enable back the option that starts xdm on start -- it did not help. Actually I am not sure I understand what xdm does -- when I boot by box I still get the regular text only prompt -- is it how it should work? I also start my X sessions by typing 'startx' -- is that a correct way of starting X (as a user or as a root)? Thanks in advance, Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] Several questions
Hello, as of this Sunday I downloaded and updated almost of my packages that now compiled with gnulibc6 (with exception of X11 stuff). I ran into a couple of problems and am not sure if I caused them. 1. After installing ldso, libc6, I installed libreadline2 -- that some how deleted a link to my old readline that bash was dependent on - so after I logged off I could not login into the system from anywhere -- bash was not executing. Then I tried to go into the system with the Debian installation diskettes (I have a version that is based on kernel v 2.0.6) -- to see if the old libreadline was saved somewhere but it was not. I mounted my hd with /usr/bin partition to see if I can run dpkg and install the latest version of bash -- but dpkg did not run at all (this is what I do not really understand: while in /target/usr/bin tried ./dpkg and nothing happened). Before all that I tried to do the upgrade using dselect but the update program exited with status 1 when installing libreadline -- this is why I started installing the lib myself. I fixed the problem by doing two things: a. substituted bash with ash (shell that comes on the installation disk) -- this allowed my system to boot up to the point that hd are mounted (all the init scripts use bash as a default shell) b. changed my passwd file to allow root to login with cshell instead of bash shell -- that allowed me get into the system and upgrade bash. I just would like to know if next time I decide to do anything like that -- what would be the preferred sequence of actions. 2. After installing new bash -- I tried to compile my programs nothing worked. The problem was that my make files relied on determining operating system type by looking at OSTYPE env variable. That variable was always defined as 'linux' now OSTYPE=gnu-linux. I just wanted to know if this is now a standard and will be the same for all the other linux distribution -- or should I use something more stable to determine the OS type from makefiles. 3. gcc crashes consistently when compiling YACL (one of the C++ libraries I use) I get SIG 11 type of error. Compiling kernel though seems to be OK -- that is why I thing that there is something wrong with a C++ portion of it. I did install all the latest dev versions of glibc and g++ and the latest CPP (I am not sure though if it has been updated for the latest gcc) Is there anything else I should install? Thanks in advance, Vladislav -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
