On 08/08/2012 12:36 AM, Andrew Greig wrote:
I could not load the Gnome Terminal in my Suse 2.1 64 bit box after loading Entangle from the Suse repositories. This has prevented my running Evolution from the console to try and get some error messages. I rebooted my box in the hope of sanity returning, but now I get no display at all.
Ctrl+Alt+F2 and tried to startx but got these messages: xauth: file /home/andrew/.serverauth.2041 does not exist xauth: file /home/andrew/.Xauthority does not exist xauth: file /home/andrew/.Xauthority does not exist
Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again
So I did that and things looked encouraging until it failed with a message Failed to load session"(null)" and offered a Logout button. The mouse was working but the button did not log me out and the box returned with the same message.
How would I repair this so that the Gnome desktop would create new authority files?
Andrew Greig
Hello Andrew, Not having any experience with Entangle, nor Suse (I run fedora), the way I have approached past breakdowns in X is to generate an xorg.conf with: Xorg -configure as root from runlevel 3 and then try to modify it until it works. In my current fedora 17 the file structure for X files has changed so that bits of the old xorg.conf file go into files in the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ rather than one omnibus xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/, so that took a bit of mucking around to get it to work as I wanted it. As for the installation of Entangle killing X ... that doesn't sound too good. Ben.