Slug, On Friday I was fiddling around with locale in my user account nicko. This was to get xterm and mutt working with utf8.
When I tried to start X again, it crashed. Another user on this machine - ed, can start X, as can root. I re-exported the locale variables to C after trying out en.US.UTF8 . Here is the diff between `startx 2> xout' in the two accounts, where `nicko' doesn't work and `ed' does: debian:~# cat diff_xout.nicko__xout.ed 88c88,92 < GLX Extension Reset called! --- > SetKbdSettings - type: 2 rate: 30 delay: 500 snumlk: 0 > SetKbdSettings - Succeeded > > waiting for X server to shut down GLX Extension Reset called! > As it's the same XF86Config being used, I can only assusme that the keyboard settings problem goes back to the failed attempt to use a utf8 locale. I would have though that by returning the entire locale to C by using LC_ALL=C would return nicko to a stock standard setting, just like ed. Clues? please anyone. Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
