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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: newbie problems-X shuts down system
From:       David Banning <david () skytrackercanada ! com>
Date:       2001-06-30 19:09:54
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Sorry, but I have never run X as root, I've always just
su'ed to root when I need to.
Someone told me it's not a good idea to run X as root. 
Sorry I can't be of more help.

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:15:44PM -0500, denny white wrote:
> I installed freebsd without x & kde & got everything working
> right. Then I ran /stand/sysinstall & installed x & kde & setup
> the xserver. Everything ran great. What I failed to mention
> (my bad) was that I had created .xsession & .xinitrc for the
> other 2 users & now xwindows still runs fine for them. It's
> only logged in as root that xwindows crashes. It starts to
> load the gui & then freezes for a short while & then reboots.
> No error messages, not visible to me anyway. I'm sure there
> might be somewhere to find them afterward, but I don't know
> where to look. When it reboots, the system naturally goes
> through a lengthy check because of not shutting down right
> & then loads fine. I have some new extra files in /root now
> too that I didn't have before:
> MCOP-random-seed
> .gtkrc-kde
> .kxmlrpcd
> .mcoprc
> Please let me know if there's any other info I can provide.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Banning" <david@skytrackercanada.com>
> To: "denny white" <dennywhite@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: cvsup newbie problems
> 
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:08:01AM -0500, denny white wrote:
> > > Probably got in over my newbie head, trying to use cvsup,
> > > but had had so much success with freebsd, hated to stop
> > > trying to learn. Ran cvsup  & went through the entire process,
> > > following the handbook & Annelise Anderson's online book.
> > > Everything looked like it was working great until I tried to run
> > > xwindows. I apparently broke something there. Just trying to
> > > find out the next step & it's probably in the documentation,
> > > but haven't found it yet. Is it best to just reinstall xwindows,
> > > kde, etc. from my cd 4.3 stable, or is there another course
> > > of action I can take to fix it? 
> > 
> > I would recommend that you give us an idea of exactly what
> > errors you've run in to. 
> > 
> > What steps did you take to install X?
> > Did you run XF86Setup?
> 
> 
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