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Akaihiryuu
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 Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:54 am Post subject: Got into my system, but X is still badly broken... |
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| Well, I finally managed to boot my system again, by using single at the GRUB prompt. That got me into the system so I could rc-update del xdm default until I can figure out what's wrong. One day everything was fine, the next day everything broke right after I did an emerge -u world. There weren't any X components that I know of in that, it was just a couple applications, so I can't imagine what screwed up. I DID do an emerge -u world earlier in the week that upgraded a LOT of stuff, but everything still worked after that. The problem started after the most recent one. Attempeting to start X just makes the system reboot now. Any ideas what could be causing this? None of my configuration has changed that I know of. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Akaihiryuu,
Whats in your .xinitrc file - note the leading full stop. Look in your /home/<user> directory.
If you don't have one create it with the following content
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
# start some nice programs
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
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Now type startx as your normal user. You should see the window manger from hell, three xterms and a clock. If this fails, tell us about your graphics hardware and post the content of /etc/X11/XF86Config.
You probably need to reconfigure X
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NeddySeagoon
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those that do backups
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