Finally bringing to conclusion my first debian (3.0r.1) install, I ran aptitude update. When I subsequently rebooted, user cannot start x, but root can.
I reconfigured XF86Config-4 by running dpgk-reconfigure , using the
simple configuration, which worked before, and kept the same
values. But that did not help. There are a couple warnings in the
XF85config log (a set of fonts does not exist; can't open APM), but no
errors.
When root runs # echo $DISPLAY, it returns: :0.0. But when user runs $ echo $DISPLAY, there is nothing.
I'm currently logged in as root, and in an xterm su to user to handle
my mail. I find that user can start emacs, but not other x
clients. The error returned when I try is that there is no display
name and no DISPLAY variable.
I don't think I did anything that would affect authentification.
Haines Brown
Create a new user, and see if that user has the same problems.
Also check enjae[westk]:/home/westk> sudo cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Password: allowed_users=console nice_value=-10
If the "allowed_users" is not "console", either change it, or better yet, run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common", which I believe will give you the option to change who can run the server.
If I log in as a normal user into a text console (no X11) and run "echo $DISPLAY", I too get nothing displayed. I don't think the lack of having a display env-var set is a problem.
-- Kent
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