From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 6:27:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web13907.mail.yahoo.com (web13907.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4524037B409 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:27:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennywhite@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010709132739.89517.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [161.26.20.8] by web13907.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 09 Jul 2001 06:27:39 PDT Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 06:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis White Subject: root can't use xwindows since cvsup To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Can anyone point me in the right direction to read where I might solve this problem? I used cvsup a week ago & the only problems afterward besides the xwindows one were error messages on boot caused by my not having the right stuff in the kernel config for ipfw & natd. That's ironed out. No more errors. But, I can't use xwindows & although it's not really considered safe to do, it helps me a lot getting around which helps me learn quicker. I've checked files like .xinitrc & .xsession & compared them to the normal user's files. No difference there. I've tried to find some logfiles that might help & can't. I've tried reading troubleshooting stuff for x all over the net & still can't come up with anything. There are no error messages when the trouble happens. Xwindows starts to load & just when it's about through, it locks up & in about 10 seconds or so, reboots the machine. This only happens for the root user. X works fine for other user accounts. I don't want to reinstall, & am not asking for a "give me" quick fix, just some good places to look for troubleshooting it. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message