[ale] Debian Sarge - no X unless root

[James Sumners]

Try 'apt-get install x-window-system'. That should install every package you
absolutely need to run X. I just read through your first email again and it
sounds like you missed a couple.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 01:27:19 -0500
Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 November 2003 00:51, James Sumners wrote:
> 
> Just tried "console" to no avail :-(  This was a net install using 2 
> diskettes.  I have done the installation twice now.  Is is possible (likely) 
> I messed up during the installation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> > I am not sure that "anybody" works correctly. You may want to try changing
> > it.
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:36:58 -0500
> >
> > Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 November 2003 00:19, James Sumners wrote:
> > > > In your "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config" is "allowed_users" set to "console"?
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:25:20 -0500
> > > >
> > > > Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:00, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > > > > > I know I saw something about this same problem recently but cannot
> > > > > > locate it. My installation will not boot into X unless I select
> > > > > > Debian as the window manager and log in as root.  As user trying
> > > > > > KDE I get the following error:
> > > > >
> > > > > More correctly I should have said "My installation will not boot into
> > > > > X unless I select "Debian" as the session and log in as root."  The
> > > > > rest of the info in my prior post still applies.
> > >
> > > Just check it.  It is set to "allowed_users=anybody".  Is that okay?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jim
> > >
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