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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