Re: Display Manager Problems -- CRY FOR HELP
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:56:30PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> That leaves me with all the reasons it is a bad thing to log into X as
> root. Especially, I can't run X applications successfully under
> other usernames. That has made a real mess of my email archive!!!
If you can't run X as a mortal, you've probably done something to the X
configuration, or to the permissions of one of the sockets it depends
on. I'd try the following things:
1. dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 # Maybe X is hosed?
2. dpkg-reconfigure -plow gdm # Or GDM?
3. As a normal user, run "startx 2> error.log" and check the output
if X still bombs.
Maybe after that, with some actual debugging output, someone else can
offer greater assistance.
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