| Stephen Gran on 2 Oct 2004 19:45:03 -0000 |
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:50:08PM -0400, Art Alexion said: > My default window manager in Red Hat 7.3 is fluxbox. I use Yum/Fedora > Legacy to keep the system up to date. A recent yum update updated a lot > of stuff, including the kernel and XFree86. Now fluxbox won't load. It > starts to load and then X restarts and I am back to the kdm login screen. > > KDE and Window Maker load fine. > > The system is triple boot with Mandrake 9.1 on hdb5 (and windows > somewhere on hda along with Red Hat). When I installed Mandrake, the > install script promised that it would "update" my existing grub > configuration. Instead, it replaced it. I had to hand configure it to > boot Red Hat, but that worked OK until the kernel and X update. The > kernel update was supposed to update grub, but I think it updated the > unused Red Hat installation of grub. If that is the case, I may be > booting a older kernel that is incompatible with the current X > configuration. > > Any ideas? I'd much rather use fluxbox than KDE on this partition. Output of : cat .xsession-errors uname -a egrep '^\((WW|EE)\)' /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or wherever Redhat puts the X logs) lsmod and X version Without a little more information, I don't know what to say yet. The above is where I would start. The fact that _some_ WMs work points to it being a problem with fluxbox itself, so I think that .xsession-errors will be the most enlightening, but I include the others on the off chance that something interesting will pop up. Also try moving your .fluxbox stuff out of the way, and retrying. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | The economy depends about as much on | | steve@lobefin.net | economists as the weather does on | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul | | | Kauffmann | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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