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