Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)
I cna dig the whole $user/.xinitrc but everythin was fine last week . .
the machine was up and running for about a month also I only ran X as root
as a test
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Corey Allert wrote:
>
> > also Xfree86 doesn't run properly .. . it will as root but as any other
> > user X starts as if no window manager is set . . and typing startx -exec
> > fvwm2 will bring up the correct gui but there is no command prompt in the
> > xterm . . . freaky eh??
>
> Time to RTFM, there, Corey. I suggest a good X book, i.e. X User's Guide
> by O'Reilly (volume 3 in the X series.)
> The reason why this isn't working is because your users don't have a
> ..xinitrc that contains a windows manager. Suggest you build a skeleton
> directory with a proper .xinitrc file, or edit the systemwide xinitrc to
> include a standard WM. As for the xterm bit, you're probably getting weird
> behaviour because the xterm probably doesn't have an & attached to it in
> whatever startup file you have.... Probably also your systemwide xinitrc
> doesn't have th proper read permissions if your root directory contains no
> ..xinitrc file. Finally, you shouldn't be running X as root.
>
> This is probably in a FAQ.
>
> Will
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