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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #41 is a reply to message #40 ] |
Sat, 15 May 2004 23:56   |
 kev82
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im really confused about what you mean by terminal, are you talking about
a) a physical machine connected by serial/network port
b) terminal emulation software running in X
c) a terminal running on virtual console (eg Ctl-Alt-F3)
and where exactly are you logging in as root for this to work?
quote from fortune the other day - "science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing"
no offence intended, just thought it was a funny quote
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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #43 is a reply to message #42 ] |
Sun, 16 May 2004 15:10 |
kev82
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The only two things i can think of are permissions on initialisation files or the devpts filesystem not mounted but neither of these fit in perfectly with your symptoms
can you see if the terminal emulator prints any errors when it tries to start. ie login into a gui as root, launch a terminal, su to a user that is having problems opening terminals then run xterm or gnome-terminal and see if it prints an error.
you also might want to try creating a new user with a copy of the standard initialisation files and see if they can get a terminal up.
quote from fortune the other day - "science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing"
no offence intended, just thought it was a funny quote
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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #57 is a reply to message #40 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2004 01:24 |
Tony
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It's possible when you've upgraded, you've upgraded xf86server as well and somethings cocked up.
Change to a console ctrl +alt +f1 or f2,
login as root
type setup (i think Rh still uses it)
You should get a menu, off the top of my head i think you can setup the xserver (monitor and graphics card) there.
If that doesn't work login to the console as root
type xf86config (always the best way)
It's a command line setup which rarely fails and easy to go through.
after you've done everything and saved it, type startx.
you some times have to do it as root first then the user.
If that works you should be able to change whatever you want via gui.
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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #61 is a reply to message #40 ] |
Sun, 23 May 2004 17:37 |
kev82
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sorry, all that means is the user you su'ed to doesnt have access to the X-server, before su-ing run
xhost +
this will disable access control and you should hopefully see the real error when you start the terminal
quote from fortune the other day - "science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing"
no offence intended, just thought it was a funny quote
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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #65 is a reply to message #64 ] |
Wed, 26 May 2004 22:19 |
kev82
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yes, "xhost +" does give access from any host but it also gives all users access which is what we need to get the error message from the terminal because we want to start an X-server as root, su to a normal user and then have the normal user run a terminal. if you know of a more suitable command to do the same thing then feel free to suggest it.
to be honest it wont really give all host access as the default red-hat firewall more than likely blocks non local access to ports 6000/6001/etc
quote from fortune the other day - "science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing"
no offence intended, just thought it was a funny quote
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| Re: it's terminal ! [message #97 is a reply to message #40 ] |
Fri, 06 August 2004 00:40 |
kev82
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im afraid im not familiar with those errors or even X session management. ive googled the error and found loads of messages some with dramatically varying causes/solutions including, no space on /home, incorrect permissions on .xsession, no space in /tmp, etc...
i suggest you try some of these things and if that doesnt work post in a red hat specific forum, im afraid this is stuff i dont know very much about.
sorry couldnt be more help.
quote from fortune the other day - "science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing"
no offence intended, just thought it was a funny quote
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