On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote: > > Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > Yesterday I exited X and the next time I tried to restart it, it died > > without any error messages. I tried switching to a different window > > manager with update-alternatives, but that made no difference. I am > > running woody and there have been no X upgrades since the switch to > > testing, so I am at a loss to figure this out. I use xserver-svga, > > since my Cirrus card is only partially supported by XFree 4.01. > > > > What is really strange about this is that I can run win4lin with the > > 'fwin' command, indicating that at least part of X is functional. > > > > Any ideas? > > Not sure if this will do it, but you can try: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
Strange, that dies with the message mv: cannot create regular file 'etc/X11/Xwrapper.config': No such file or directory. Possibly dpkg-reconfigure is broken(??). It saved the old file with a ~at the end of the filename and created a temp file, which was identical. I copied the temp file to Xwrapper.config and found that I am able to run startx as root, but if I try as a regular user, X dies immediately after starting with no error message. Xwrapper.config says: allowed_users=console nice_value=-10 This *should* allow any console user to run X. Bob
