From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 30 11:38:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF37D37B6D8 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from d.tracker ([65.92.124.231]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010630180952.EUNE2764.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@d.tracker>; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:09:52 -0400 Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5UJ9tM55222; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:09:55 GMT (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:09:54 -0500 From: David Banning To: denny white Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie problems-X shuts down system Message-ID: <20010630140953.A55180@sympatico.ca> References: <004601c10165$d4d8fec0$6601a8c0@hal> <20010630122252.A46297@sympatico.ca> <001401c10188$5ef6d7e0$6601a8c0@hal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001401c10188$5ef6d7e0$6601a8c0@hal>; from dennywhite@yahoo.com on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:15:44PM -0500 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 Sorry, but I have never run X as root, I've always just su'ed to root when I need to. Someone told me it's not a good idea to run X as root. Sorry I can't be of more help. On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:15:44PM -0500, denny white wrote: > I installed freebsd without x & kde & got everything working > right. Then I ran /stand/sysinstall & installed x & kde & setup > the xserver. Everything ran great. What I failed to mention > (my bad) was that I had created .xsession & .xinitrc for the > other 2 users & now xwindows still runs fine for them. It's > only logged in as root that xwindows crashes. It starts to > load the gui & then freezes for a short while & then reboots. > No error messages, not visible to me anyway. I'm sure there > might be somewhere to find them afterward, but I don't know > where to look. When it reboots, the system naturally goes > through a lengthy check because of not shutting down right > & then loads fine. I have some new extra files in /root now > too that I didn't have before: > MCOP-random-seed > .gtkrc-kde > .kxmlrpcd > .mcoprc > Please let me know if there's any other info I can provide. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Banning" > To: "denny white" > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 12:22 PM > Subject: Re: cvsup newbie problems > > > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:08:01AM -0500, denny white wrote: > > > Probably got in over my newbie head, trying to use cvsup, > > > but had had so much success with freebsd, hated to stop > > > trying to learn. Ran cvsup & went through the entire process, > > > following the handbook & Annelise Anderson's online book. > > > Everything looked like it was working great until I tried to run > > > xwindows. I apparently broke something there. Just trying to > > > find out the next step & it's probably in the documentation, > > > but haven't found it yet. Is it best to just reinstall xwindows, > > > kde, etc. from my cd 4.3 stable, or is there another course > > > of action I can take to fix it? > > > > I would recommend that you give us an idea of exactly what > > errors you've run in to. > > > > What steps did you take to install X? > > Did you run XF86Setup? > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William Blake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message