I had something similar happen to me. What i found was the problem was that the xinitrc file was setup incorrectly.
Basically i had to correct a line i had mistyped to do with xinitrc. (Although this, it must be said, gave the problem both with XDM and startx). I don't know if this helps Cheers JOE ---------- > From: Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: X woes (potato) > Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:32 PM > > After yesterdays X update to 3.3.2.3a-9 my system wanted to run xdm (I > previously didn't use xdm). However, whenever I would log in, it would > immediately return to the login screen. I decided to remove xdm, but now > when I try to run X using startx, I get the gray screen and cursor (the > window manager <icewm-gnome, but it does this with any window manager> > doesn't get started) then X stops running and I see: > > waiting for X server to shut down > > Before that, I get: > > System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us > -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml "Errors > from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' > > Since this message showed up before, I'm pretty sure it is unrelated to > the problem. Does anyone know what I can do to troubleshoot and/or fix > this? > > Bob > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen >
