hello, in jan 2000 the following mesg appeared in debian-arm - but no solution for that problem had been posted. Now I have the same problem with debian-mips. Is a solution available for that problem? Thanks Maik > Greetings, > > I can startx and run xterm just fine as root, but as an NIS user, > (startx goes fine but) I get the error message in the subject. > > Any ideas? -- Maik Busch TU-Berlin Germany maik.busch@web.de