From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:30:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28561 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28546 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA21688; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 21:30:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stumpie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to get up and running In-Reply-To: <354A624E.35CE@edu.gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998, Stumpie wrote: > I am still having problems with startx. > > My error message is "libXmu.so.6.0" It should be in /usr/X11R6/lib. If it is then run `ldconfig -m /usr/X11R6/lib' as root. > I ran xconfig and it seemed to run normally. xconfig doesn't exist. > I have a file .XF86Config in root. It should be /etc/XF86Config. .XF86config does nothing. > 1. When I login as root, I get a # prompt. I can then rummage around in > the shell, using commands like ls -l and cd. > > 2. When I login as a user, I get a $ prompt, and the ls command and the > cd command don't appear to work. I am assuming that the user shell is > empty. Your path is messed up. Check ~/.profile or ~/.cshrc and update the PATH as appropriate. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message