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On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 20:09 +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Dick Bain wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ls -a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> normally works ;-)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Dick</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks Dick,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">OK I found .xsession-errors which Adam mentioned earlier. It's huge. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Should I delete it, try loading X and then see what it says?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">.xinitrc doesn't seem to exist.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Kind regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Julian</FONT>
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To see the last 100 lines of that file<BR>
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tail -f -n 100 $HOME/.xsession-errors | more<BR>
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any clues<BR>
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(change 100 to 200 etc to go further back)<BR>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#ff0000">Adam Rykala </FONT></B><BR>
<B><FONT COLOR="#ff0000">adam@rykala.demon.co.uk </FONT></B><BR>
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-- > <I><FONT SIZE="1">A hypothetical paradox: What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet? -- Tom Galloway</FONT></I>
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