Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > > Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a > > frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any sugges

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a > frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions > regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) > > * John Magolske [091024 16:26]: [...] > >

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen & crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread John Magolske
Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) * John Magolske [091024 16:26]: > When I issue `startx`, X starts up in an immediately locked up state. > I have t

Re: cannot start X

2001-03-04 Thread John Galt
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common set permissions to "Console Users Only" On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: >Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: > >> >yomama[5]% startx > >X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > >xinit: unexpected signal 2 > >yomama[6]% >

Re: cannot start X

2001-03-04 Thread Kent West
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: yomama[5]% startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. xinit: unexpected signal 2 yomama[6]% < My .xinitrc is real simple: exec rxvt & exec rxvt & exec enlightenment < I'm running a fresh w

Re: Cannot start X - solved!

2000-08-21 Thread Michael L Ried
I found my problem when I ran: xinit 1>xinit.log 2>&1 X was wanting to run a xterm and I needed to still install xterm. Thanks for your help. On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: > I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks > like X windows

Re: Cannot start X

2000-08-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: > I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks > like X windows is going to start but then it stops soon after starting > up. I am not sure if there is some place to look for error messages. I > assume that I

Re: Cannot start X

2000-08-19 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've had this problem also. Most recently after installing xdm. You might want to try removing your .xsession file in you user directory, or renaming it to .xsession_bak and see if that helps. When you ran XF86Setup, did you get all the way to xvidtun and save the configurations file? If you got t