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Cauchy25

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 3

[Solved]Can only login ratpoinson as root

I am using slim as my login manager, and ratpoison as my windows manager. I edited the rc.conf file to start slim. Then made a ~/.xinitrc file and put exec ratopoison in it. After rebooting and trying to login to my user I get the error message failed to exectute. I can login as root and ratpoison loads fine. I don't know what the issue is. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Cauchy25 (2011-04-01 18:28:53)

cesura

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Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: [Solved]Can only login ratpoinson as root

From everything that I could find, the error that you're describing is caused by a nonexistent ~/.xinitrc file. I know that you said that you had created one already, but is it in your user's home directory? If you created it as root, the file would be /root/.xinitrc rather than the intended /home/user/.xinitrc.

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kcirick

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Registered: 2010-06-21

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Re: [Solved]Can only login ratpoinson as root

What if you logged as your user without going through slim... Can you start ratpoison as normal user from console?

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Cauchy25

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Registered: 2011-03-30

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved]Can only login ratpoinson as root

Please delete. Something must of been wrong with the .xinitrc file after copying over the old one with a new one the skel it is working fine. Thanks