On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0400, Bill Barnes wrote: > Hello List: > > Just did a dist-upgrade from woody, helixcode and kde2. > > login as root fails, but can 'su', 'su - root' from terminal.
Check the startup procedure for startx. Look for a $HOME/.xsession file in the home directory, that gets run if it's there. You mention that it's root, does that mean that it's not other users having the problem? I suspect .xsession then. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX