Re: help: startx causes system crash

2003-03-29 Thread Rob Weir
Please don't post a question in reply to another, unrelated one; starting a new thread makes it far more likely that people will see, and respond to your mail. On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:40:50PM -, Charlie Taylor wrote: > I can't start a GUI and am lost so any help would be appreciated. > > T

Re: help: startx causes system crash

2003-03-23 Thread nate
Charlie Taylor said: > I can't understand the first part of this problem, "X: cannot execute > binary file". sounds like X is not linked to the right file try: ls -l /etc/X11/X and ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X on my system: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jan 28 19:20 /etc/X11/X -> /usr

help: startx causes system crash

2003-03-23 Thread Charlie Taylor
I can't start a GUI and am lost so any help would be appreciated. The problem: Installed fine, then came to the command line and typed startx - a few lines of information was printed to the screen before the screen went blank. I couldn't reboot by ctrl-alt-del/bkspace, I couldn't do anything but s