On Wednesday 04 February 2004 02.26, Chris Carlen wrote:
Hi:
Suse 8.1
I close my X session, then CTRL-Alt-F1 and log in as root, then init 3.
Then I go to Alt-F2 and log in as my normal user. When I startx I get to the serpentine pattern of X before it starts a windowmanager, and it sits there with the X in the middle, which I can move around, but that's it.
The WINDOWMANAGER is set to /usr/X11R6/bin/kde
If I log into an extra user account which has never been used for anything, that user can startx and gets KDE. So something must be corrupted in the main user.
Running the system in init 5 there is no problem for the normal user, the kdm login appears, the user logs in, and KDE runs.
How can I fix this so I can run X from the CLI in runlevel 3?
Check $HOME/X.err for any error messages you get from startx