Subj : Re: X server quits. Log file here. No apparent error
To   : comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
From : noone
Date : Thu Jul 15 2004 06:39 pm

nijhawan@hotmail.com (Rohit Nijhawan) tried to express:
> I would greatly appreciate it if one of you guys could help me with
> this one.
> 
> 1. I installed woody r2 with kernel 2.2.20 vanilla (debian)
> 2. I changed my sources.list to include testing packages.
> 3. I updated things like mozilla and it automatically updated quite a
> few of my libraries.
> 4. Among those libraries were programs related to Xserver and fonts.
> 
> 5. Now when i boot my system and choose the linux boot, it goes
> straight into kdm->kde.
> 6. when i log out of kde and enter startx i get the following error
> log and then it just quits. I am guessing it has something to do with
> the fact that my kernel is 2.2.20 and i've installed xserver 4.1.x
> whereas it expects things to be at the 4.0 standard
> 
> Looking at the following log file, can anyone of you guys guess why i
> am not able to enter "startx" to get into X? Once I log out of X after
> a reboot, i can enter xdm to get into kde but startx doesn't work.
> Here's the log

If the system is setup to use an X dislay manager upon login then you should
never use startx to run X11.  You simply logout then log back in using the
display manager gui.

If you don't wish to have X start upon login then change the system runlevel
to (3 in most distros) so that you always get a text mode login.  then
you can use startx to fire up X11 whenever you need it.  You will most
probably have to customize your .xinitrc script though.

-Wiseguy

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