The problem is that your home directory (probably specified under /etc/passwd) no longer exists. So when X trys to right a file into it this process fails. Change the home directory setting in /etc/passwd, make sure it is owned by the user who starts X and then "su - usernamewhostartsX" and all should be well. I had a similar problem allowing my girlfriends user to start X on a Slack8 box.
Evan >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/01 10:01PM >>> Dear XFree86ers, I have a problem firing up xwindows.......... I had a hardware problem with a extra disk I installed on my PC (Cyrix 333 MHz 686; Red Hat Linux 7.1) and so it had to be removed. It was not the disk that the OS was installed on, I added it for extra file space and various applications............ After some farting around and commenting out the entry in fstab for the failed disk I managed to get Linux going again. But for some reason xwindows doesn't work. It fires up a little bit and gives me the cross and grey dotted screen but doesn't make it to the blue stuff and the windows and gnome bit. I tried "upgrading" the OS from the install CD to the 7.1 again to see if this might fix the xwindow problem. It did not. The last thing the screen has on it before konking out was /home/mikef/.ICEauthority unable to lock ICE authority file waiting for X server to shutdown Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be?? All the best Michael Fothergill _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
