Re: [Sheflug] Now a new silly problem!

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Thanks Alex but I'm afraid you've lost me...

I find I can get into the computer as 'root' by changing to Gnome as the
window manager and so I altered the init level to 3 in /etc/inittab. This
took me to a prompt on reboot, but, as soon as I do 'startx', it goes right
on into the window manager. I tried 'startx>&1 debug.out' but it didn't
produce a debug file. Can you give me any more clues please - as I see it I
have a problem finding the errors in KDE when I can only log in as root
using another window manager - or am I wrong again? Would a reload of KDE
sort things out or is it likely to just take its new settings from the
existing ones and perpetuate the same problem? Thanks for your patience.

Ian

--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK


----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hudson <eah106 [at] york.ac.uk>
>
> Do a process listing and see if kfm is running - if not, that's your
> problem, certainly sounds like it from here. Probably not a base of kfm
not
> being run though - it'll be being run and bombing out for whatever reason.
> Check the error logs, and dump the output of X to a file if you can (drop
> down to init 2/3 and start it from the console with a '2>&1 debug.out' or
> something).


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