Just installed 11.0 tonight, and after a generally pleasant experience of it... well, something had to happen... When installing, I typically choose KDE to start with, then add on my own xinitrc file (modeled on the skel on provided) and run fvwm. I've never had a problem with this approach. This time, however, I get repetitive spew such as the below (also from .xsession-errors).

From the number of "Permission denied" in there, I tried running "sudo startx" and got KDE in "bomb screen" mode. Ok, its something, but the wrong thing overall.

For grins, I ran plain SuSEconfig, with no args, and it didn't make a difference with respect to startx. Help, please? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- xauth: creating new authority file /home/vanveen/.serverauth.20216 sed: couldn't open temporary file /etc/sysconfig//sedlRlt5l: Permission denied Warning! MD5DIR is not set: you probably called this script outside SuSEconfig...! Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"... cp: cannot create regular file `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig': Permission denied sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory cat: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory Installing new /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers cp: cannot stat `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5//etc/X11/xdm/Xservers': Permission denied /lib/YaST/SuSEconfig.functions: line 75: /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5//etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: Permission denied ln: cannot remove `/var/X11R6/bin/X': Permission denied cp: cannot create regular file `/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.SuSEconfig': Permission denied sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory cat: /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory Installing new /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config cp: cannot stat `/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config.SuSEconfig': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5//etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config': Permission denied /lib/YaST/SuSEconfig.functions: line 75: /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5//etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config: Permission denied sed: couldn't open temporary file /etc/sysconfig//sedujcyhz: Permission denied Warning! MD5DIR is not set: you probably called this script outside SuSEconfig...! Using MD5DIR="/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5"... cp: cannot create regular file `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig': Permission denied sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory sed: can't read /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory cat: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig: No such file or directory Installing new /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers cp: cannot stat `/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.SuSEconfig': No such file or directory ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS. props to suse on * current package-management * the "don't panic" legend when the installer drops back into console mode :-) Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org