At 22:51 Uhr -0400 9.10.2005, William Duke wrote:
>Okay, here's what I get when I type startx from the twal# prompt:
>
>xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "twal:0" in "list" command
>xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "twal:0" in "add" command
>
>Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

Hm - the latter smells like problems with your installation.

The former...  I'd expect ':0' for DISPLAY on localhost. Do you set the
DISPLAY environment variable manually? What is in your .xinitrc and
.xserverrc?

	hauke

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