James wrote:
> I do not find any xfree86 anything in /var/log/ Could it be someplace
> else?
The actual name is /var/log/XFree86.0.log . With a capital XF. If
it's not in /var/log, use locate to find it.
locate -i XFree86.0.log
If you don't leave your machine up all night, you don't have a
locate.db, and locate won't work. So use find instead. Run this as
root.
find / | grep -i 'XFree86.*\.log'
Find is slower, but it will always work.
Only XFree86 release 4.x.x has a log file. If you're running 3.x.x,
there is no log.
> Back at my command line [...] I type "startx" and it
> goes to the red screen with cursor, then exits back to the command line.
Good. So X isn't actually crashing your box, it's just crashing
itself.
> Is it possible that I can't use xwindows as su?
Shouldn't be a problem.
If you can find that log file, mail it to the list and we'll all
take a look.
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