[PLUG] X will not load: no errors reported]

[Kenneth G. Stephens]

On Sunday 08 September 2002 11:11 am, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:
> Hi Rich -
>
> >   However, I fixed the problem!! I _think_ (but I'm not certain) that it
> > was a wayward 'fi' at the end of ~/.xinitrc that was orphaned when I made
> > some changes to the file.
>
> Were you running sawfish as your window manager by chance? Based on your
> description it sounds like sawfish loaded without gnome; if you put
> /usr/bin/sawfish in your .xinitrc without anything else the same situation
> should arise.
>
> Sawfish is still functional in this stand-alone state; I think the middle
> mouse button will bring up a menu.
>
> HTH,
>
> Tyler
>
> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > > What video card are you using?  Maybe it's only supported by XFree86
> > > 3.whatever?  I've run into several S3 cards that don't work with
> > > version 4.whatever of XFree86.  Did you install both 3.x and 4.x of
> > > XFree86?
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> >   As I wrote in the original message, this was working fine through
> > yesterday evening.
> >
> >   However, I fixed the problem!! I _think_ (but I'm not certain) that it
> > was a wayward 'fi' at the end of ~/.xinitrc that was orphaned when I made
> > some changes to the file. Other users -- and root -- could log in and
> > start X so I knew the problem whas somewhere in my .xinitrc.
> >
> >   But, ... no errors were produced. So, I sprayed Agent Orange over the
> > file, selectively killing things until I got the culprit. It must have
> > been that 'fi' 'cause it now works.
> >
> >   Time for breakfast -- at last!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich

Well, Rich, what was the last thing you did before the X stopped working?

Did you look in ~/.xsession-errors ?


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