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From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Xwindows won't run after complete re-install
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>  I copied xinitrc for .../xinit/xinitrc and copied to 
>/home/beef/.xinitrc and did chown to myself. But that did not help. I 
>am at a loss as what the problem is. I have an ATI mach 64 with 4 
>megs ram and basically did same setup as before. I tried it as root 
>and myself. All fails and gives some type of message about SHVSYM or 
>something like that.

You get grey screen and no windows? I did this once. Have you referenced a
window manager in .xinitrc? If you haven't started a window manager you
will get the behavior you described. 

Also, start a couple of xterms from xinitrc. X will start up and those
xterms will popup and you will be on your way. YMMV.

Have fun,
Jason Wells