On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 01:19 -0800, Sanjay Arora wrote:

List:

I am using Centos updated till date. Last night I shut down the system and X was working fine...today morning I start X and it does not work for my normal user. X starts for root & other users. The error output seems totally incomprehensibe and scrolls away from the screen too quickly.

The /var/log/Xorg.0.log seems to have only the subsequent success of login of other user or I can't seem to find the correct error in it.

Only thing I did yesterday in addition to normal browsing & emailing & yum updation...was to install the Yahoo messenger for RH9...was said to be compatible with ES4 and it did work perfectly fine.

How do I startx X for the user it is not starting for? or at least where do I find the errors to report. Only display 0 setup for X.

Help a desperate man please !! ;-(((

I would check in your user's home directory for the presence of any .x|.X files. Compare to a working user's directory. Make sure that the ~/.Xauthority is owned by your user. You could delete ~/.Xauthority as well and force it to be recreated. If you installed Yahoo messenger from an rpm you might find out what scripts it runs by running rpm -q -- scripts <rpm name> and see if it modifies any files that seem suspicious to you.

Hope this helps.

Barry