Sounds like you have an old session left loaded in there. Look for any Xsessions in your home directory. Also, make sure you're the owner of your home directory. Finally, check in your .xinitrc and make sure that your window manager is being exec'd. -Bill On Monday 14 October 2002 03:43 pm, Steve White wrote: > When starting my X session this morning there was a problem. The usual > startup screen telling you that the window manager is starting up did not > appear. The panel didn't load, there were icons on my desktop, but no > names for the icons. Several nameless error boxes containing no words, but > a red circle with a white minus symbol contained therein. > > I had to cntrl-alt-backspace to get out of X. The graphical login screen > is fine. I was able to log in as root with no problems, but no luck with > my regular user. I created a new user, and had no problems with that > starting up the window manager. > > Anybody have a clue as to what is going on here? > I'm running red hat 8.0 on an AMD XP1800+, 512MB DDRram, 40GB HD, K7S5A > Motherboard, and SBLive!. > > Thanks. > > Steve W. > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
