The other night I installed Netscape 6. I don't know of an RPM for it, so I downloaded the setup file, and it installed successfully. I then logged in as user, and tried to run it for the first time. It started to load, then stalled, I did this again, and it stalled. I tried launching it from Gnome and then Xterm, it stopped on the line (something to the effect of) MIGRATING FILES. So thought that maybe it was trying to create a directory since this is the first time use, so I from X term I logged in as SU then launched Netscape 6 from Xterm. It fired right up. I surfed around, configured everything, then shut it down. Immediately when I shut it down, I could not get any other program in Gnome to respond. It was about 1am, so I just shut it down and went to bed. The next morning... 'startx' no longer worked.
My wildest guess says that since I launched Netscape 6 as root, it had the control to modify something that I didn't want it to. But it wouldn't launch the first time without it...??? Anyway, that is neither here nor there... what I have tried and has failed is this...
I ran XF86Config again, and it still won't launch. I tried Xconfigurator also, again, nada. The screen comes up (black), like it is going to open, then the X server shuts down. The most recent error message that I am getting is:
caught signal 11. server aborting
X connection to :0.0 Broken
I would consider trying to hand edit XF86Config to get it to work, but I didn't have to do that during my initial installation, which I used Xconfigurator. Furthermore, I suspect (again I have only been running this for six months) that another file may be the culprit. What I need to know is what other files could it be? .xinitrc only contains the information of what shows up on my desktop right? So what other files are there?
