Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:19:50 -0500 From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com> To: "Pontius Malmberg" <p9nch@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: startx error Message-ID: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPMENCCLAA.otterr@telocity.com> In-Reply-To: <20001208234937.26158.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com>
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if you're just joe user, it maybe a suid issue. try su'ing to root and starting starting xdm and then login as joe user to see if that works for you. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Pontius }Malmberg }Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:50 PM }To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: startx error } } }hi there: }i just acquired FreeBSD 4.2 iso image and burned a cd. }then i installed freebsd on my PII 233MHz, 512MB RAM, }4x40GB WD Harddrives RAID 0+1 with Promise }FASTTRAK100. everything worked out smoothly, however, }when i start up the computer and log in as root and at }the prompt i type startx, then i get this error. it }can't startx. is there a bug in the 4.2 version? }it says that i should mail the whole error and not the }last lines, but i don't know how to email that output? }how can i get a newer version that isn't going to }crash when i want to use KDE? }peace out, }ponch } }__________________________________________________ }Do You Yahoo!? }Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. }http://shopping.yahoo.com/ } } }To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org }with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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