On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, orion wrote: >Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 13:06:55 -0700 >From: orion <orionc@shaw.ca> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: your session lasted for less than 10 seconds > >Pavle, thanks, but I have not found any .Xclients* files on my machine. > It happened when I was exploring the effect of the Ctrl+Alt+Fn keys and >tried starting X-windows on the same terminal as screen 1. And then choosing >by mistake Reboot before I even had chance to try to close screen 0. > I fixed the problem temporarily by selecting option 3 in /etc/inittab >(booting into multiuser mode). I can now use X-windows, invoking startx, at >least in my user account, but still not as root! When I try invoke startx as a >root, it exits without giving any reason/errors. > > By the way, that message actually contains at least one typing error >"your session lasted for less THEN 10 seconds ...", and then says something >about installation errors (none were reported during installation) or the lack >of memory (that's not my case), so that was not very helpful. Please bugzilla this. Thanks. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list