----- Original Message -----
From: "David Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Could you send me the output of "sh -x `which startx`" ?

Strangely "which startx" returns nothing for both root and an ordinary user
.. however ... "which xinit" returns

ottaky@linux:~> which xinit
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        23142 Jan 15 21:09 /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit

doing a manual find for startx says:

linux:/home/ottaky # find / -name 'startx'
/root/xc/xc/programs/xinit/startx
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3020 Jan 15 21:09
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx

and for xinit:

linux:/home/ottaky # find / -name 'xinit'
/etc/X11/xinit
/root/xc/xc/programs/xinit
/root/xc/xc/programs/xinit/xinit
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit

My PATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin

sjb

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