On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> Now, whenever I type 'startx', X starts to boot, but then hangs at the gray
> screen. The panel or the desktop icons don't appear, and I am unable to do
> anything. The mouse cursor moves around, but that's it.
Sounds like the X display server itself is starting, but the desktop
environment (window manager, etc.) is failing and/or hanging.
> I ran XF86Setup and restored everything to defaults.
... more evidence that the X server is fine ...
> I'm running RedHat 6.2.
What desktop environment and/or window manager are you using? GNOME? KDE?
Enlightenment? Sawmill? FVWM?
> Does anyone have any clue what this could be and how to fix it? Any help
> would be appreciated.
First, if you don't know, the magic keystroke to shutdown the X server is
[CTRL]+[ALT]+[BACKSPACE]. The X server itself does a clean shutdown, but any
clients will most likely abort as their connections are broken. But it beats
rebooting the machine any day.
Check your system logs (usually in /var/log) for any messages emitted by
failing programs.
Look in your home directory. Some Xclients scripts redirect output to error
files. Sometimes they are dot (hidden) files. File names vary but usually
have "errors" in them somewhere. You may find clues there.
Is your shell bash? If not, get into bash (run "bash"). Once in bash, run
the command "startx > X.out 2>&1". That will redirect all output of any
X-related programs to the file "X.out". Once any activity has completed, use
above magic keystroke to exit back out, then examine the file.
If none of this leads you anywhere, give a yell, and we can try manually
starting the clients step by step.
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