On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:35:04AM -0700, James wrote: > Jacob wrote: > :In the case of XFree86 (the "real" name of the xwindows server), > :the default location for the logfile is /var/log/XFree86.0.log. > > I do not find any xfree86 anything in /var/log/ Could it be someplace > else?
Possibly. It's also possible that X isn't able to write to the logfile for some reason, which would cause it to behave strangely. > I was able to go through the "wizard" set up of xwindows and chose > KDE default. It congratulated me, then upon hitting "ok" it > rebooted. Back at my command line (I have security set at "high" so I > have to log in as a user then become a super user) I type "startx" and it > goes to the red screen with cursor, then exits back to the command line. > > Is it possible that I can't use xwindows as su? That shouldn't be a problem. MrO hinted at another way to get a log of what's happening. Instead of just entering 'startx', type in 'startx > my_x_log 2>&1' (without the quotes) and then hit enter. This will dump what should be dup'd to the log into a file called my_x_log. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
