[K12OSN] startx puts display on server

[Dale Harkness]

Jim McQuillan wrote:

>Dale,
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>Even if you go to failsafe, you are still running a session on the
>server.
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>AND, you are already running X.
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>So:
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>1) No need to run 'startx', as X is already running.
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>2) typing 'startx' in a failsafe session is going to try to
>   launch X on the server, because that is where you are
>   running it.
>
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>I think your real problem is in the desktop environment that you have
>set for default.  if you dont choose 'failsafe', which disp environment
>is it trying to launch?  Choices could be Gnome, KDE or Icewm.
>
>Jim McQuillan
>jam at Ltsp.org
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>On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Dale Harkness wrote:
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>>when i log my clients in they seem to go thru, but then my screen just
>>takes me back to a logon.  when i go to failsafe terminal and run
>>startx, i get the error that display 0 is already in use by the
>>server.  if i do a startx -- :1 the computer starts, but the display
>>goes to the servers monitor....odd???!!!???.  i am not sure why this
>>is, anyone out there know a reason?  thanks.
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>>dale
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When i load my machines, by default, they are supposed to go to Gnome, 
however when i do that the screen flickers a few times, and then takes 
you back to the logon screen.  no errors or anything.  the only logon 
that works is failsafe.  you can logon to the machines as root and it 
logons ok, but any other user it just flickers and takes you back.  why 
is that?

dale