Oh I just remembered I had something similar to this. I'm using KDE 2 at home, and Mike ran the KDE manager remotely once, which totally stuffed up my ability to run X from the console. Turned out to be a temporary file created by KDE and its X services in /tmp
Go have a look in /tmp without X running by anyone (including console) and get rid of any .X* or whatever session files. (hehehe an opportunity to get rid of Netscape rubbish too!) You can always run fuser on them to see if they are still used by anything. Cheers, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2002 0:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] To kludge or not to kludge This one time, at band camp, Nick Croft wrote: >I'm thinking of tarring up the account, Star Office and all, applying >userdel to it and starting again, untarring the works into the new >synonymous account. Is that not a huge kludge? If the problem is a setting in some rcfile, and you untar your rcfiles back into the new account, then that won't solve your problem. >Is there a more elegant way of restoring X-window to this account? Can I >copy a profile of some sort from the other accounts that are able to start X? ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
