From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 4:15:40 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 04:15:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545F937B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA28262; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 04:14:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Otter" To: "Pontius Malmberg" , Subject: RE: startx error Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:19:50 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001208234937.26158.qmail@web5305.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if you're just joe user, it maybe a suid issue. try su'ing to root and starting starting xdm and then login as joe user to see if that works for you. -Otter }-----Original Message----- }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Pontius }Malmberg }Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:50 PM }To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG }Subject: startx error } } }hi there: }i just acquired FreeBSD 4.2 iso image and burned a cd. }then i installed freebsd on my PII 233MHz, 512MB RAM, }4x40GB WD Harddrives RAID 0+1 with Promise }FASTTRAK100. everything worked out smoothly, however, }when i start up the computer and log in as root and at }the prompt i type startx, then i get this error. it }can't startx. is there a bug in the 4.2 version? }it says that i should mail the whole error and not the }last lines, but i don't know how to email that output? }how can i get a newer version that isn't going to }crash when i want to use KDE? }peace out, }ponch } }__________________________________________________ }Do You Yahoo!? }Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. }http://shopping.yahoo.com/ } } }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