On 19-Dec-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: >Ralph Winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: >> >> startx -- :1 >> >> the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1 >> three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops, >> this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it again as >> myself, and once again it failed, go figure! > >That's, hmm, interesting :) About the only thing I can think of now is the >/tmp directory permissions. Since it works as root and not as an ordinary >user maybe the /tmp permissions are messed up. > >It's also strange that the error message mentions display 0 even though you >tell it to use display 1. Maybe for some strange reason you have startx in >two different locations and the root user sees different startx than the >non-root user. Command 'which startx' should tell where startx lives.
"which startx" as root says "/usr/bin/X11/startx" and as rjw says "/home/rjw/bin/startx". "cat /home/rjw/bin/startx" shows: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx -bpp 24 I forgot my $* on the end. I guess it won't be the last time I outsmart myself, but I'll hope so, anyway. > >Also to correct myself; it's minus not slash :). > >// Heikki > > > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .