Hello everyone,

Newbie to Linux here. I have Redhat 9.1 installed on my computer. It was working fine till I installed " keychain-2.3.5", a software to enable me ssh to other machines using my system public key rather than asking for my password.

The problem is, when I login as root and try to start the XServer, it gives me

"XIO: Fatal IO error 104 Connection reset by peer on X Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining"

startx seems to work for all others users to that computer. Does any one have any idea ! I am puzzled cuz the all powerful root cannot get in whereas others can !

Thank you!
theGuru.

solution: don't run xfree as root... number one unix nono is to use root as your normal system account. (trust me I learned it the hard way when I accidentally did rm -rf /home/* back in my n00b days)

You should make yourself a normal user account and only use root when you need to change something (via sudo or su, etc).

Hey ...

Thank you for the word of caution. I won't do it... but still would like to know what
could be done to get my X Server up and running in the root account. I don't login as root
for daily usage but I am a n00b and makes life a lot simpler with the GUI when I wanna
install something or so.

Thank you guys.
theGuru.

have you tried going into init 3 (text mode) and logging in as root, and then starting XServer?

yes... my initlevel is set to 3 so everytime I bootup, I don't start X Server directly. Still doesn't work
Works for other users though