From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 03:43:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA11910 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA11905 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 03:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from (ukonline.co.uk) [212.228.66.197] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z4NVZ-0001Pq-00; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 10:42:57 +0000 Message-ID: <35C98845.994B5F59@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 11:41:09 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Forrest Aldrich CC: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: X startup problems References: <199808051909.PAA09541@spook.navinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As far as I understand, there are two options to start up X. 1) startx - requires user has execute permission on startx 2) xdm - see http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ133.html for info (dont forget to make .xsession executable!) or it loops :-) I use the xdm method - it brings up a graphical login screen NB if you get locked out doing this, reboot using the "-s" option when it says "boot:" to get single user "mount -a" to mount the file system read/write - and fix whatever broke. Chris R. Forrest Aldrich wrote: > 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? > > 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