Although the recent discussion of X dying was solved, other reasons for gnome to kill X apprently exist - I'm forwarding the below from the gnome-list for the edification of those who have problems with gnome (although, so far, I've been stable with 1.2 of gnome). jeff "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote: > > >X and gnome were working OK for both root and users prior to > [...] > >Any ideas with permission problems or gnome configuration problems? > > A few days ago I fucked up my system a bit and I was unable to launch X too > (that is what happens when you write "!startx" in a text console that is not > local, but a telnet to your other machine). > > So I removed the .Xauthorithy and all the X things that are under /tmp/ > (.ICEsomething and .X11something). After that, the system come back to > normality. > > Try that, maybe that will solve it. If not, I doubt it will screw it more, > cos all that things are suposedly temporal and can be deleted if not used. > > Aaah, other times the problem is with ORBit dirs in /tmp/. It seems that > changing UIDs make some apps not happy at all. > > GSR > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- jeff smith --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- thought for the day: FORTUNE'S RULES TO LIVE BY: #2 Never goose a wolverine. ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
