I have been a bit over ambitious and now cannot get any window manager to load. I can get as far as the X login screen and it appears to load but just returns to it. If I then run 'startx' it goes through the same procedure. The last 2 lines when it returns are:- /root/.xinitrc: usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: No such file or directory /root/.xinitrc: exec: /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: cannot execute: No such file or directory This all happened after I installed AfterStep and then uninstalled it because had taken over the machine. Probably shouldn't have, but that is history. have tried export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde but no effect. Have tried suewm, again nothing. Can anyone help please, or am I looking at a re install. Regards, David

Thanks - I tried that but no go. Nothing happened with chown - not sure what that does. All I can get is the xserver login screen, so the x part works. It tries to load but gets thrown back to the login. Just noticed the blue console screen, and that has:_ linux kdm[1160]: extra arguments on command line linux /usr/sbin/gpm[1156]: error in protocol Any ideas - it is looking like a re install at the moment. Regards, David On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:59:10 +0100, John Scott wrote:

Try switching to console 1 on F1 to see your error messages. It may be a permissions problem. Does it do that for all users? If not, do a ls -l of your home dir and see if root owns any files or dirs there. If so, try chown -R username /home/username/.

John

----- Original Message ----- From: "David" To: ; "Brian Beaver" ; Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: [SLE] Have lost RunWM - help please

I have been a bit over ambitious and now cannot get any window manager to load. I can get as far as the X login screen and it appears to load but just returns to it. If I then run 'startx' it goes through the same procedure. The last 2 lines when it returns are:-

/root/.xinitrc: usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: No such file or directory /root/.xinitrc: exec: /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: cannot execute: No such file or directory

This all happened after I installed AfterStep and then uninstalled it because had taken over the machine. Probably shouldn't have, but that is history.

have tried export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde but no effect. Have tried suewm, again nothing.

Can anyone help please, or am I looking at a re install.

Regards,

David

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Thanks Anders, unfortunately doesn't make any difference. I think it is time for the FBH. It is going to be quicker to re install than to sort this Regards, David On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 01:58:30 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:

Did you try changing .xinitrc back to what it was before you installed that RedHat thing. i.e. remove the runwm line, and put in

exec $WINDOWMANAGER

regards Andersx

On Friday 16 November 2001 01:41, David wrote:

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Thanks - I tried that but no go. Nothing happened with chown - not sure what that does.

All I can get is the xserver login screen, so the x part works. It tries to load but gets thrown back to the login. Just noticed the blue console screen, and that has:_

linux kdm[1160]: extra arguments on command line linux /usr/sbin/gpm[1156]: error in protocol

Any ideas - it is looking like a re install at the moment.

Regards,

David

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:59:10 +0100, John Scott wrote:

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Try switching to console 1 on F1 to see your error messages. It may be a permissions problem. Does it do that for all users? If not, do a ls -l of your home dir and see if root owns any files or dirs there. If so, try chown -R username /home/username/.

John

----- Original Message -----

From: "David" To: ; "Brian

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Beaver" ; Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:50 PM Subject: [SLE] Have lost RunWM - help please

I have been a bit over ambitious and now cannot get any window manager to load. I can get as far as the X login screen and it appears to load but just returns to it. If I then run 'startx' it goes through the same procedure. The last 2 lines when it returns are:-

/root/.xinitrc: usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: No such file or directory /root/.xinitrc: exec: /usr/X11R6/bin/RunWM: cannot execute: No such file or directory

This all happened after I installed AfterStep and then uninstalled it because had taken over the machine. Probably shouldn't have, but that is history.

have tried export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde but no effect. Have tried suewm, again nothing.

Can anyone help please, or am I looking at a re install.

Regards,

David

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I have managed to corrupt the Window managers in Linux. I have received a lot of suggestions here, but nothing has been achieved. The quickest way now is to just re install, but first I want to know which files to save to just restore my network again. I don't want to do a backup since that might include the corrupt files Regards, David