It sounds like it's just a change to root's .xinitrc or something like that's causing startx to not work. Check the modification dates of the hidden files in /root. Mark. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, jared & ailene wrote: > Aloha again, > With some welcome help from several folks in this group I was > successful in getting my new Linux box with Asus P4P800 board > and Nvidia GEFORCE-FX video card up and working. The startx > command brought up the GNOME desktop and all was well - > then I made a very bad move. I downloaded 'Yahoo Messenger' for > Red Hat8 (from the Yahoo site) while in my root account in RH9. > Yes I know, this was really dumb! The next day I typed in 'startx' > after my root login - No gui, No Gnome just a notice of- > "waiting for X server to shut down". Also instructions to look at > /var/log/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config. There are no errors > listed and every thing looks normal. The good news is that I created > a new user account and everything still works perfectly when I startx > from that new account. I removed all references to 'ymessenger' that > I could find (whereis..) one from root-ls and others in /usr. Still > unable to get startx to work. Feeling very humble at the moment. > Anyone have any idea of how I can get my root account back to normal? > Thanks, jared <jarlynne@xxxxxxxx> > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
