From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 2:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B2C37B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 02:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from bullwinkle.local ([12.95.1.196]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020213101540.UZCI29236.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@bullwinkle.local> for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:15:40 +0000 Received: (from cft@localhost) by bullwinkle.local (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1DADWF03609 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:13:32 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from cft) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 00:10:51 -1000 From: Carl Tucker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help, I've broken X Message-ID: <20020213001051.A3572@bullwinkle.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok. I like to think I'm not totally clueless, but every once in a while, I do something that makes me reconsider. I wanted to remove a user, so I did 'vipw' and deleted the line for that user. So far so good. Then, I changed to /usr/home, and, as root, issued: find . -delete -print -user [user] This was a really good way to learn the RIGHT way to use find(1), which I thought I knew well enough, but now I have a problem. Midway through happily deleting everything under /usr/home, I got a bad feeling and killed it. Only half of my personal home directory was wiped, and nobody else's was touched. Some of my dotfiles were lost, some remained. I rewrote most of the ones that I needed, like .login. The problem is, now no matter what I do, X won't start. Just for me. Everyone else is fine. It seems to start the X server, the screen shifts over like it's going to work, then about the time it would start the window manager, it dies as if I'd hit [ctrl][alt][bs]. No error messages. I recreated my .xinitrc to only have 'exec blackbox &' as the only line, but the same thing happens. I can't start blackbox or fvwm2, or kde. Everyone else uses kde, and it still works for them. I created a new user, just for testing, and the new user can't start X in any way, just like my own account. Help? -- Carl Tucker | flestrin@worldnet.att.net | cft@panix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message