no GUI except as root
 

Greetings and apologies if this comes as a repost. I have spent a couple of hours reading previous posts along these lines (most on other distros) and none have solved my problem.

My biggest problem is going to be H.U.B. syndrome. I installed Sarge (netinst worked just peachy for me) and got things working well. And I was dinking around in KDE one day, modifying settings that looked pretty inocuous but making things "better" for me. One of the settings I changed was to enable the GUI login using gdm. No biggie, it worked and life was pretty non-geekish for a couple of weeks. But I wanted my geeky CLI login back - after all I can spell startx.

Here is where I ran into trouble, once I thought I had the settings correct, I rebooted and ran into a series of errors like I'd never wanted. Anyway, about a week later, I have things back to "usable". I have apt-get removed kdm and gdm and am back to my CLI login. My big problem is that I can't get startx to work under any login except root.

The errors I get have nothing to do with my /home slice being full - it's a brand new 120GB drive dedicated to that fs. I did check and my .Xauthority in my /home/user directory was 0 bytes. I copied the file from /root but that didn't help. I figured that it wouldn't hurt, but now I don't know if I'll ever get back to my original user login on KDE. Anyway, can someone help me with this? I can provide whatever info you would need, except, of course, things that would compromise the security of the system or network.

I am really happy with this distro and don't want to screw things up ("Too late!") any worse.

:( :confused: :cry: :scratch: :study:

okay, I just attempted it again (I figured SOMEONE out there would want the error msgs) and here is what I get:

$:startx
hostname: Host name lookup failure
xauth:error while loading shared libraries:libXmuu.so.1:cannot open shared object file:No such file or directory (6 times)

I hope that helps someone to slap me on the back of the head and say "Duh! <insert corrective action here>".

Thanx.

I am guessing that you changed the PATH environment variable for your user.

Do a

I'm thinking it doesn't contain /usr/X11R6/bin/

If it doesn't, put the following in /etc/profile
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin/

darth,
You are correct. /usr/X11R6/bin is not in the $PATH for the user account. It is also not in the $PATH for the root account, either. Does that make a difference?

I think I found you answer. On LQ no less!!

- type ldconfig, hit enter
- type startx, hit enter

From:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=191098

Thanx! I'll give that a shot when I'm done ripping this CD.

Again, thanx darth. But alas this did not fix my particular challenge.

Any other suggestions?

Anyone?

As root, with your favorite editor add these lines in your /home/user_name/.xsession

#!/bin/sh

xhost +localhost

reboot, just to make sure, hope this helps

Thanx for that input. I'll try that suggestion when I get back home.

Happy 4th to all who are celebrating today!!!