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startx/alias problems

two questions

1. Everytime i type startx I get a bunch of blank scrolling that I can't stop. ANy wasy to fix it? I'd like to be able to load my desktop

2.I've set up the ls alias's in root, but when I'm in normal user, I can't get it to work. I've edited the .bashrc file in ~ and it still won't work. Any ideas?

Hello,
I had this problem and I did not have X fully installed. Try apt-get install x-window-system.

2. Post what you put in ~/.bashrc

BTW, after editing .bashrc did you either
1) log out and back in or
2) source ~/.bashrc

yes I logged out and logged back in, I'll post the output in little while, I have to get it so I can read it in my Windows partition.

heres what my user .bashrc file says

Quote:

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)

# for examples

# If running interactively, then:
if [ "$PS1" ]; then

# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options

# export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups

# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,

# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.

#shopt -s checkwinsize

# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
eval `dircolors -b`a
lias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'

alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'

fi
# some more ls aliases
alias ll='ls -l' --color=auto'

alias la='ls -A' --color=auto'

alias l='ls -CF' --color=auto'

# set a fancy prompt
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir

case $TERM in
xterm*)

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'

;;
*)
;;
esac

# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable

# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc).

#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then

# . /etc/bash_completion

#fi

fi

Change
lias ls='ls --color=auto'
to
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

EDIT: your "a" was on the previous line. Delete that too.

nope, I went and checked my .bashrc file under linux and that's corrected, I must have copied it wrong. Any other ideas?

It may have something to do with the extra single quote in the ll, la, and l lines.

Quote:

alias ll='ls -l' --color=auto'

alias la='ls -A' --color=auto'

alias l='ls -CF' --color=auto'

the quotes in red, blue or lime green?

It is the blue or middle one you need to remove.

When using the LQ color tags the closing color tag shouldn't have an =color.

I removed those apostrophes and it still doesn't do anything. any other ideas?

add the line in your /etc/profile (at the end) you can use if/fi to check if its there, but i just make sure both root/ftp/and my user have one

source $HOME/.bashrc

I'm sorry, add what line to where. The last post is kind of confusing. Could you restate that?

there should be a file in the /etc directory called profile. It is called by bash shells (and other shells, but not sure which all) the final line can read

source $HOME/.bashrc

Thank you, I'll see if that works