Re: X is hosed
>
> I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just
> previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink.
> At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker.
>
> Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs
> in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx,
> but a user cannot.
>
> Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT?
>
> I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same
> problem persists.
>
> I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries,
> and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did
> before this happened.
I'm not quite sure about this, but:
a) do you now have no wmaker at all?
b) is your x config such that it tries to launch wmaker
If both of these are yes, then that is the problem.
Install wmaker again (hamm version), or change ? /etc/Xsession or
.xsession to fire up something else
HTH,
Matthew
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