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Re: Cannot startup X-windows

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Tue Dec 1 14:27:40 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:26:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
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>>>>> "rt" == Ronnie Thum <cwthum@network2.cs.usm.my> writes:

rt> I'm using fvwm2 as my X manager.
rt> Sometimes when i type startx, I can't seem to get into X-windows.
rt> It just hangs there with the cross cursor..

rt> What's going on ? what could be the problem ?

Sorry but this is of no help at all, you need to read some of your log
files such as ~/.xsession-errors 
/var/log/messages 
/var/log/xdm-error.log

I believe you will find some errors in one of these,


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