Re: potato broke X :(
...not sure, because I began running xdm for potato, but
did you copy and config an .xinitrc to the user home directory
X is running in? You might check the X docs on this.
Art
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote:
> David Coe (david@someotherplace.org) wrote:
>
> > Well, as a starting point, try just this:
> >
> > 1) exit to be sure we start clean
> > 2) login (as root or a normal user, doesn't really matter for this test,
> > maybe even try both to see if there are differences).
> > 3) at the shell prompt just type 'xinit' and watch to see what happens;
> > it will either spew out a bunch of text and start an X window with a
> > single xterm (from which you can 'exit'), or it will spew out a bunch of
> > text and fail just like before. Let me know what it does, and what it
> > spews.
>
> Okay, I logged in as root and typed 'xinit' and it went to vt7 and just
> sits there with a blank screen. Switching back to the vt that I started
> with, it has the error I previously posted about connection broken.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Ron
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