Closed case. Though I had tried everything to get X back, finally needed to swap in Lars' /etc/passwd, for everything to came up. Now I swapped back in my old /etc/passwd, it reads as it always read: offers /root to 'root', and everything still works perfectly well. Somewhere on the way something remembered some parameter until it was reset, my only explanation.
Cruft - or as Lars had put it: don't trust upgrades of alphas. Thanks again for everyone's concern and help! Uwe This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
