From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 09:12:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11592 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netcom2.netcom.com (nickliu@netcom2.netcom.com [192.100.81.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11577 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nickliu@localhost) by netcom2.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id JAA12659; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:12:18 -0700 From: nickliu@netcom.com (Nick Liu) Message-Id: <199608071612.JAA12659@netcom2.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Users cannot run X-windows To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Aug 6, 96 11:00:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Nick Liu wrote: > > > If I login as a normal user, then I couldn't run startx. I was able to > > load xdm though, but when I put in user name and user password, the screen > > just goes back to the login mode. > > In what way can't you run startx? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Please disregard the post. I found out later that the /usr/X11R6 directory is not accessible to user. This happened after I moved /usr to a different drive. Thank you all for your assistance.