From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 14:23:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07681 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (root@jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07536 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul1.u.washington.edu (root@saul1.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.10]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA25374; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:22:26 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id OAA12721; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:20:45 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: Jon Misc cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X refuses to start In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998, Jon Misc wrote: > Hello. I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and X and I've run into some >trouble. A few days ago, I installed X on my computer and configured it >to start at boot time. It worked fine for a couple of days, but >yesterday, I booted FreeBSD and got as far as the text login screen. When Unix is not like windows. It will not change itself spontaneously to mess up your system. This leads me to the question, what did you change? Also, find the error log file for X and read it. This will help. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message