It sounds like it's just a change to root's .xinitrc or
something like that's causing startx to not work. Check
the modification dates of the hidden files in /root.
Mark.
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, jared & ailene wrote:
> Aloha again,
> With some welcome help from several folks in this group I was
> successful in getting my new Linux box with Asus P4P800 board
> and Nvidia GEFORCE-FX video card up and working. The startx
> command brought up the GNOME desktop and all was well -
> then I made a very bad move. I downloaded 'Yahoo Messenger' for
> Red Hat8 (from the Yahoo site) while in my root account in RH9.
> Yes I know, this was really dumb! The next day I typed in 'startx'
> after my root login - No gui, No Gnome just a notice of-
> "waiting for X server to shut down". Also instructions to look at
> /var/log/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config. There are no errors
> listed and every thing looks normal. The good news is that I created
> a new user account and everything still works perfectly when I startx
> from that new account. I removed all references to 'ymessenger' that
> I could find (whereis..) one from root-ls and others in /usr. Still
> unable to get startx to work. Feeling very humble at the moment.
> Anyone have any idea of how I can get my root account back to normal?
> Thanks, jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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