From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 03:23:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09166 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:23:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA09150 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from (i-zone.demon.co.uk) [158.152.227.78] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z4NCr-0006xR-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:23:37 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:47:18 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John Subject: Re: X startup problems References: <199808051909.PAA09541@spook.navinet.net> In-Reply-To: <199808051909.PAA09541@spook.navinet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike (32) Version 4.00 beta 9 <5jmCrxUbpyYdwGXid1yqlWD9$N> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199808051909.PAA09541@spook.navinet.net>, Forrest Aldrich writes >This has been an outstanding mystery... X windows will not start up if the >user is not root. I've checked, removed, and altered my .xinitrc, to no >avail. What gives with this? Most likely reason is that X is not in their path (this is what caused it here) -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message