could be offbase here but shouldn't you use startx -- :2 to start a new xserver ?
Chris On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:47:46 +1100 "Nick Croft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
