* Jill Rowling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > 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.
Thanks Jill, While you were sending me that, I got X Window working by getting root to copy a .Xauthority from another user to this account. It opened a blank screen with the big X , and I wrote a .xsession to get a window manager. Just to be sure I logged out and tried to get back in, same problem. Had to repeat the borrow-.Xauthority routine. First gnome app I tried sent a message Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library even though I've reverted the locale to be the same as the other users'. I think I'm going to have to know more about locales than I thought necessary, to get right through this problem. Meanwhile thanks for `fuser'. The /tmp processes seem to be quite ordinary. Regards, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
