[ale] Debian Sarge - no X unless root

Jim Seymour bluejay at speedfactory.net
Sun Nov 16 01:30:37 EST 2003


On Sunday 16 November 2003 00:51, James Sumners wrote:

Just tried "console" to no avail :-(  This was a net install using 2 
diskettes.  I have done the installation twice now.  Is is possible (likely) 
I messed up during the installation?

Thanks,
Jim
> I am not sure that "anybody" works correctly. You may want to try changing
> it.
>
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:36:58 -0500
>
> Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 November 2003 00:19, James Sumners wrote:
> > > In your "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config" is "allowed_users" set to "console"?
> > >
> > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:25:20 -0500
> > >
> > > Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:00, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > > > > I know I saw something about this same problem recently but cannot
> > > > > locate it. My installation will not boot into X unless I select
> > > > > Debian as the window manager and log in as root.  As user trying
> > > > > KDE I get the following error:
> > > >
> > > > More correctly I should have said "My installation will not boot into
> > > > X unless I select "Debian" as the session and log in as root."  The
> > > > rest of the info in my prior post still applies.
> >
> > Just check it.  It is set to "allowed_users=anybody".  Is that okay?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
> >
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