startx vs init 5

Dwaine Castle dcastle at carolina.rr.com
Mon Jul 26 18:57:11 UTC 2004


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






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