> I had this happen more times than I care to admit.. turns out some of > the fonts I copied from another OS (M$) weren't up to snuff. They caused > all sorts of problems, from X crashing back to desktop ( on startup, > trying to use xfontsel, trying to change fonts in konsole, but not > control-center -- I had to pick a certain font or 2 to crash there). > Oh, my solution here, remove the other fonts, since then, no problems. > > As I recall, the ssh problem from another response provides an error > message when X fails to start. Something about wrong protocol? I posted > it to debian-x the day libssl0.9.6a came out.. > > Good luck > > Gordon Sadler > >
Not as far as I know (re: the error message). At least, it doesn't send that to the terminal, it might put it in the sys log or something. Actually, I just remembered, it puts it into ~/.kde2-errors. That would be a good place to check! D.A.Bishop