RE: Nagging X problem - SOLVED

[Thomas E Dukes]

>  
>  On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:47:17PM -0400, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
>  > > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:59, Thomas E. Dukes wrote:
>  > > > > On Sep 25, 2004 at 13:22, Thomas E. Dukes in a soothing
>  > > rage wrote:
>  > > > > 
>  
>  > > > > >The video card is a matrox millenium g200.
>  > > > > 
>  > > > > I only saw a couple of warnings in there. Since this 
>  worked with
>  
>  > > > 
>  > > > Yes it works fine in runlevel 5.  I did a locate for the 2
>  > > files you
>  > > > mentioned.  I don't have either of those files (anywhere).
>  
>  > 
>  > Unfortunately, that didn't work either.  It seems to be the 
>  root account
>  > can't start X manually from runlevel 3 but can login as 
>  root under runlevel
>  > 5.
>  > 
>  > It has to be a file somewhere preventing this similar to 
>  root not being able
>  
>  Goodness this is a long thread and still unresolved.
>  
>  I would:
>      mv /root /oldroot
>      mkdir /root
>      startx
>      logout
>      # login
>      cp /etc/skel/.[a-z]* /root
>      startx
>      logout
>      # login
>      startx     
Hi Mitch!

Its worked!!!  I think it was something in my root directory preventing X
from starting.  I moved /root and /tmp to different names, logged out, then
back in, no go.  I rebooted, logged in tried to start X, no go.  I moved
/tmp back to its original name, rebooted, logged in and X started.

Thanks for the help everyone!!