X wont start unless root

sdelano · 2007-07-30 04:27:45

So I got everything installed the way I want it but I did it as the root user. Now when I try to start X with the new user account I created, it will not work. I even copied all of the files from /root/ to /home/userid/ including the hidden files. It still wont work. I did moduser -d /home/userid/ userid to make sure.

When I say x wont start it just hangs when running startx. The error comes up that "Hostname: unknown host" but that comes up when I run startx as root as well.

What is the problem here? I dont want to be forced to run as root forever.

Thanks,
sdelano

nikron · 2007-07-30 04:56:38

You own your home directory, right? I'm not familiar what the moduser command does, I assume it does that?

sdelano · 2007-07-30 05:03:53

good call...now it works

next time is there a better way to get all of the config files set up for a new user?

Thanks

rson451 · 2007-07-30 13:48:07

when you add a user, use the adduser script, not useradd. adduser is an interactive script included with arch to make your life easier

Arch Linux

#1 2007-07-30 04:27:45

X wont start unless root

#2 2007-07-30 04:56:38

Re: X wont start unless root

#3 2007-07-30 05:03:53

Re: X wont start unless root

#4 2007-07-30 13:48:07

Re: X wont start unless root

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