Re: X is hosed

[antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk (Robert Wilderspin)]

On 7 Sep 98 14:34:34 GMT, adavis@netpci.com wrote:

>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?

Upgrade xlib6g to the latest version.  Wmaker has a problem with the
old one such that it crashes immediately (after xdm has finished).

>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.

It sounds like your system is still trying to run wmaker, and so still
crashing.  Edit your user's ~/.xsession file and comment out the line
which loads wmaker.  And replace it with a different manager,
preferably.

I'd suggest giving wmaker another try though, after upgrading xlib6g.


Rob Wilderspin
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