Re: Display Manager Problems -- CRY FOR HELP

From: Todd A. Jacobs (nospam_at_codegnome.org)
Date: 02/18/05

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To: "Debian Users' Discussion" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:56:30PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:

    > That leaves me with all the reasons it is a bad thing to log into X as
    > root. Especially, I can't run X applications successfully under
    > other usernames. That has made a real mess of my email archive!!!

    If you can't run X as a mortal, you've probably done something to the X
    configuration, or to the permissions of one of the sockets it depends
    on. I'd try the following things:

        1. dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 # Maybe X is hosed?
        2. dpkg-reconfigure -plow gdm # Or GDM?
        3. As a normal user, run "startx 2> error.log" and check the output
           if X still bombs.

    Maybe after that, with some actual debugging output, someone else can
    offer greater assistance. 

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