On Fri, 07 May 2004 01:45, Kent West wrote: > cr wrote: > >Well, I still haven't been able to make my Sarge-upgraded-from-Woody > > system start X successfully. (I'm using a text login and 'startx' to > > try and start X). I briefly get the grey dotted screen with the 'X' on > > it, then it drops out again. > > Ah. X is starting, but it's not finding any clients to run, so it > immediately exits. Try creating the file ".xinitrc" in your home > directory with the single line: > icewm > (assuming you have icewm installed; this line could be "startkde", or > "gnome-session" or "fluxbox", or "wmaker", or etc etc etc).
Tried that. No result. Curiously enough, my (working) Woody setup has no .xinitrc in it either. Doing a 'find' for it shows that my Fedora Core 1 and Vector installations have .xinitrc files. Knoppix doesn't, and Woody doesn't. Next interesting thing - typing 'xinit' brings up a bare X window (with no window manager). Typing 'gnome-session' in that window brings up an error message "libbonobo-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" 'startkde' brings up 'cannot find startkde...' Copying /usr/bin/startkde from Woody, I then get '/usr/bin/kde2: No such file or directory' Copying kde2 from Woody, I then get a list of a lot more files not found However, 'afterstep' - works! Rather badly, I might add, since I've never configured it, but I can manage to get a menu and load e.g. gedit, and open a text file in gedit. So my conclusion is, the problem isn't in X itself, or the video drivers (which is what I was suspecting), but in the window managers, which have somehow got broken in the upgrade. I'll fiddle around with them and see if I can fix it. So you're right about the symptoms, X is starting, but it can't find any clients _that work_ to run. Thanks cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
