On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:05, William Warren wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:10:57PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:50, William Warren wrote: > [snip] > > > > I'm running a Dell Dimension with an S3 Virge card, 128 MB Ram, and 9 > > > GB SCSI HD. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 2940. > > > (Added 3/5) I'm running RH 7.3. > > > > > > The root user lost its X desktop during one of the up2date runs. It > > > used to be there, but now it's gone. Other users are not affected. > > >
snip > > > > When you're at the console as "root", what about trying: > > > > switchdesk windowmaker > > > > ...then trying to run "startx" again? If that works, then you can do: > > > > switchdesk kde > > > > or > > > > switchdesk gnome > > > > ...and try to get back into X, ay? > > -- > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kuhn Media Australia > > Steve, > > Sorry, no luck: the 'switchdesk' utility completed normally, but > when I do 'startx', it's the same gray background and nothing else > but the mouse pointer. > > Bill > what about non root user? also you might try startx > startlog.out 2>&1 and see if you can capture what is happening. If all else fails, try renaming all the .gnome dirs and see if that helps. What was updated? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
