Ray, > At 03:46 PM 11/21/02 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > >Thanks, Ray. I'm currently using a usre xterm in a root session, and > >that's reduces functionality a lot. I've appended two BIG logs, and so > >this message is long. > > The copy that got here did not include any attachments or quoted text.
Sprry. When I figured I could not append the logs, I forgot to edit this first line. You should have the logs by now. Incidentally, I logged out of the new account, brought the machine down, played with another HD for a while, plugged my old HD back in, and booted to the new account. Now can't start X from it. > > > > >User still unable to start X. Root can do it, but not user. When user > > > >tries, it reports not being able to load pex5 or xie. These modeles are > > > >present and I've run ldconfig. > > > > > > A permissions problem, perhaps. What mode are they? > > > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 597369 Aug 13 2001 pex5.so > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 600739 Aug 13 2001 xie.so > > I still think this is not your key problem. When root starts X > successfully, do these modules load (check the log)? ?? I got a log when I initially tried to start from the user, but not when I successfully started X as root. The former has (II) LoadModule: "pex5" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so: undefined symbol: PexExtensionInitPtr (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so (II) UnloadModule: "pex5" (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (loader failed, -1073743256) etc. If pex is suppoed to show up when I'm running X as root, if I run lsmod, there's no reference to it there, but I suspect I'm looking in the wrong place. > Not by modern standards, with today's large hard disks. In any case, it is > apparently not your problem (unless you have an inode shortage - what does > "df -i /tmp" report about inode availability?). [root@hartford-hwp root]# df -i /tmp Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda10 128768 744 128024 1% /tmp > So ... I'm left guessing. really. What does "ls -l /tmp/.*" tell you about > permissions for .X11-unix? /tmp/.X11-unix: total 0 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 21 18:53 X0 > Unless the complete failure log has something helpful, or the post-creation > changes you make to a user account are significant, I'm stumped. Sorry. I certainly appreicate your effort. As I indeicated, this last new user account I simplyi entered and exited, and it didn't cease to work until after I had actually changed hard disks and back again. Haines - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
