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!!