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Re: how to get a clean xserver-xorg installation?



On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:14:35 +0100
Chris <list.hurschler@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Monday 23 January 2006 15:41, Scott wrote:
> > Christof Hurschler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble getting my xserver to run on an unstable machine which
> > > I just upgraded.  kdm runs, pauses on login and returns without entering
> > > any desktop (KDE or otherwise).
<<snip>>
> I will go and try that, although I'm not to optimistic that is where the 
> problem lies.  And I don't really want to use GDM.

well you shouldn't HAVE to change. about a year ago I had this problem after a dist-upgrade. turned out I was missing the sticky bit on /tmp (maybeit was /var?) and this prevented X from getting past login. 

try chmod +t /tmp (or /var).

A

> 
> I would provide more information if someone tells me what they need.  I did't 
> find any errors (EE) in the Xorg log files.
> 
> Chris
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