On 11/26/06, Ted Miller <ted-miller at att.net> wrote: > What DOES happen: > on a good run, I get the error message: > /usr.../startx: fork: resource temporarily unavailable My guess would be that, somewhere in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/*, or some similar startup file associated with your shell, is a command that starts either another shell, or another X session, or some similar thing. When you run "startx" it runs a shell, which runs that command, which runs another shell, and so on until you have no more available processes and/or RAM. I suspect it's in /etc/profile et al. rather than a file in your home directory because you say it happens no matter which user starts X.