On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:47:56PM +0200, Alf C Stockton wrote: > > Non of the three things you are seeing are related. > > > > 1. Your startx creates an .Xauthority for you. > > 2. You are seeing the error message because you appearantly don't have > > ipv6. > > 3. You need to check yourself where the start process hangs. > > I'd suggest you start with 'startx'. > > Hint: to trace a shell script you can add: 'set -x' > > > Please tell me more about 'set -x' as it does nothing for me. > I see no more after doing a 'set -x' than I have already emailed, maybe I am > using it incorrectly.
To trace a shell script, you can add the line set -x *inside the script, at the top*, and the shell that runs the script will then tell you what it's doing. I usually use -vx -- that way I can see both what variables are supposed to get substituted, and what they take as values. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
