On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt.
X is working. However your window manager or desktop (what do you usually use?) isn't firing up. This is a failsafe X session. How are you starting X? Do you use an X Display Manager (gdm, kdm, etc.)? Or do you start X from a console prompt with "startx"? Try running one of the following commands in the xterm window: - fvwm & # ( or fvwm2 ) -- for the fvwm(2) window manager - startkde & # for kde - gnome-session & # for gnome - wmaker & # for WindowMaker - afterstep & # for Afterstep ...etc. This should start up a desktop. If this fails to bring up your preferred desktop, the executable may be missing or otherwise hosed. Track it down with appropriate tools. Your X initalization process is controlled by a number of files under /etc/X11. Good places to start are the Xsession, gdm, kdm, or xdm subdirectories. You may want to try firing up X from the console and watching the error messages produced. I routinely capture all output to file with: startx -- 1>.startx.log 2>&1 & > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace > to close the aborted X session. In my xsession error file it says > > fatal IO error 32 (broken pipe) or KillClient on X Server ":0.0" > > Any ideas where I go from here? -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/