Dwaine,
Some output from the console while running 'startx' would be helpful.
We'd like to see some of these error messages. Init level 5 has, at the
end of the startup sequence, some script to start up gdm, the graphical
login manager. This runs as the user gdm. 'startx' runs X and your
xsession as whoever you are logged in as so obviously there will be some
differences in the environment.
If you check out /etc/inittab you can see that this line
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
starts up gdm. You might want to look at the /etc/X11/prefdm script.
Post some error messages and I'd be more than happy to help.
-brian
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 14:57, Dwaine Castle wrote:
If use init 5 as root to start the GUI the console is error free. If
I
execute startx as either root or an ordinary user the console is littered
with error messages mostly xorg config errors and python script errors. I
saw this in FC2 also.
As an experiment I ran all the scripts in the /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and then ran
startx. The error messages were still there. What else does the init 5
command do that might set up the environment to eliminate the errors? And,
shouldn't startx use this environment?
Thank you.
Dwaine