From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 15:54:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6558D37B702 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 15:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.47]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2B04; Thu, 25 May 2000 15:55:30 -0700 Message-ID: <392DAE96.3E6B6309@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 15:52:06 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Camba Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with root References: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Camba wrote: 1) i can't start kde. after the login screen, the goes screen black, > then goes back to the login screen. i've been using fvwm2, and it > worked fine. Begin a failsafe X session, then start KDE using "startkde" and examine the error messages. Starting a failsafe session can be done in a number of ways. Basically, it's an X session with just an xterm, no window manager. Rather than list the myriad ways one could get to a failsafe session, just edit your .xinitrc files to include just the line "exec xterm" and then issue the "startx" command. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message