Skype crashes

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 22:43:13 UTC 2008


Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:36:57AM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> The file would be created in your current working directory.  You could do:
>> startx 2>&1 /tmp/crash.txt
> 
> Err... This is not a correct command.  You can do
> startx >/tmp/crash.txt 2>&1
> or use a shortcut
> startx >& /tmp/crash.txt
> bash documentation explains things in detail.  There could be
> some differences if you happen to use another shell.
> 
>> Unless I'm mistaken startx should be working if your X config works...
> 
> Correct; for a non-root account as well.  Only you have to be at
> runlevel 3 for that and you can get there by issuing, for example,
> 'telinit 3' - but for that one you need to be root.
> 
>    Michal
> 

Thank you for the correction Michal.  I was attempting to help while paying far 
more attention to something else (that obviously shows), sorry for the confusion 
Antonio.

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