Ted Miller <ted-miller at ...> writes: > > Well, sometimes startx reboots my computer. Other times is does nothing > except slow it to a halt for a while. Sometimes is locks up. > > I am using init level 3. At the command line, everything looks fine, and I > can do whatever commands I want. > > When I type startx, then things go down the tubes. I had something similar (but not exactly) a few years ago on RH4. Seemed as if sendmail was going mad, so I just disabled sendmail and all was well - except for wondering why it went wrong at all ... Regards, MikeW