AfterStep for two users?
Iwant Afterstep (iwantafterstep@hotmail.com)
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 09:28:16 CET
Hi.
I already have AfterStep 1.7* installed. It is installed for an
"ordinary" user -- not for root. Recently I tried to install it for another
ordinary user as well. Although I did everything exactly the same way as I
did when I first installed it for the first user, I couldn't install it for
the second one. I used the latest rpm package from the AfterStep home page
(I used this for both users) to replace the older AfterStep which comes
preinstalled with Linux Mandrake (1.6 I think). For some reason my
installation attempts seem to have disabled the Xwindows manager altogether
for the second user. When I try to start Xwindows as this user I get a lot
of error messages about ".Xauthority hostname lookup failure" and "timeout
in locking authority file" -- but no Xwindows. I can't even su and start
Xwindows as root if I su from being this user. If I do, I get a kind of
"Xwindows" with only an "X" which I can move around the screen, but that is
all. Since I can't reach any way to give commands I see no alternative at
this stage but to use to power button to turn off the computer. This is
less than completely satisfactory, and my question is therefore how I should
go about to repair the damage I have done to the X configuration for the new
user (or, alternatively, if it is better to just delete this new user, how I
should go about to install AfterStep for two ordinary users on the same
system). Thank you.
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