Nagging X problem

[Thomas E. Dukes]

> 
> 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:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >
> > > >The video card is a matrox millenium g200.
> > > >
> > > >Here's the log. You asked for it.  :-)
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > I only saw a couple of warnings in there. Since this worked with 
> > > inittab = 5, my guess is .xinitrc or .Xclients-default is 
> not set up 
> > > right. Please post those if you have them.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > 
> > 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).
> > 
> 
> You should have a .Xauthority file.  Try renaming that then 
> try the startx command.

Hi Jeff!

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
to login via ftp.

Thanks!!