Just a guess - Create a new user using the GUI method. Then as root, copy the entire directory and subdirectories to /root. Make sure all files have chmod at root.root. Sounds like something is corrupt. If this doesn't work, reinstall. Steve "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: > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > > > >The video card is a matrox millenium g200. > > > > > > > > > >Here's the log. You asked for it. :-) > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > I only saw a couple of warnings in there. Since this worked with > > > > inittab = 5, my guess is .xinitrc or .Xclients-default is > > not set up > > > > right. Please post those if you have them. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks again! > > > > > > 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). > > > > > > > You should have a .Xauthority file. Try renaming that then > > try the startx command. > > Hi Jeff! > > 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 > to login via ftp. > > Thanks!! > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
