Several days ago after a reboot (FC1 - 2188) I found that when I tried to log in as root, I got only the Blue Screen of Death. However, when I logged in as user911 (my sudo user with ALL root privs) X started normally. Since then I've poked around and found the following: 1. It's an X problem, not a password problem. I can login normally as root when I start in run-level 3 or when I Ctrl-Alt-F2 to a virtual. However, when I issue reboot in the virtual, nothing happens though reboot is normal if I'm in as user911. So, it's an X problem specific to the user root since when I login as user911 X seems to function normally. 2. root's XFree86. log shows only one warning (that I believe is irrelevant): Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) No such device. 3. I've visually inspected all the scripts in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11 and all seem to be OK but since I've never had a reason to look at them before that's not much of a comfort. 4. I've looked at all the logs for signs of something wrong but see nothing alarming there. 5. I should say that I've been running this X release (4.3) since the initial installation of FC1 with not sign of this problem. My only memory of what I was doing just before it first appeared was that I had rebooted before closing my mail handler (but I had done that before with no problem). 6. As a last resort, I can always install the 4.4 release of XFree86 and I suppose that should fix it but I'd rather find the fix so i can pass that on to the developers. I've found no sign of a similar problem in XFree86 emails so I'm hoping those of you who know XFree86 a whole lot better than I can give me some guidance or ideas about fixing this situation. Thanks. Karl L _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
