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Re: Woody & Gnome problems



On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:33:20PM +0000, Vittorio wrote:
| I've just installed woody with xfree 4.1 and gnome 1.4, all from scratch.
| 
| I've had some problems to launch X because issuing "startx" linux has
| been complaining that X was not executable. I've relinked X (which
| pointed to a non existent xserver_svga) to XFree86 and it all worked
| properly AS ROOT.
| 
| Unfortunately, under a newly-defined user (dada) X invariably fails to
| start.  Now I've tried with the classical .xinitrc & .xsession with
| the only line "gnome-session" to no avail.
| 
| What's wrong with it and what should I do or check?

Look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log for error messages.  Is your .xsession
executable?

-D



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