rawhide->fc5; X won't start

sean seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 18:42:23 UTC 2006


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/1/06, sean <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So X appears to start - Fedora logo comes up; no error on Xorg.0.log.
>>
>> But no gui's will start - not gnome,kde or xfce. Does this mean X isn't
>> starting correctly so that the gui's can start? If not, what happens
>> between X coming up and the gui's starting?
> 
> Look in the xsession error files. Which should be in /tmp with filenames like
> xses-username.randomstring
> 
> There may be noise in there that from applications that is unrealted
> with your current problem so don't freak out if you see gobs of error
> outputs in that file.
> 

I've been looking for the xsession error files, but I can't find them. 
They aren't in /tmp ( I looked, I tried find /tmp -name "xse*" and find 
/tmp -name ".xse*" ) or in /root.

locate doesn't find them. Is there some switch that causes them to be 
generated?

sean




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