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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: startx wont load anymore as root
Message-ID:  <20030728222106.L8137@cheshire.cat.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030729051538.37987.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030729051538.37987.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, marlon corleone wrote:

> startx wont load anymore running it as root. the
> problem started when i got a improper shutdown, and
> when i reboot
> i saw this error message dmesg /var /usr was not
> properly dismounted, so what i did, is boot in single
> user and do a fsck then when i boot the error is gone
> i can do startx in normal user, but not as ROOT.
>
> root@Akira:/root > startx
> -bash : start: command not found
> root@Akira:/root >
>
> anyone help


Try:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
But you shouldn't run X as root anyways...

You could have also done: which startx
as yourself, noted the path, and then ran /usr/X11R6/bin/startx as root.

--Charlie



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