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Re: [SLE] Can't startx from runlevel 3
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:29:23 +0100
- Message-id: <200402040229.23283.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
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
> 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
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