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In <e4WJ2.39996$Hn5.21824@newsfeeds.bigpond.com> "Daniel De Fazio" <ddefazio@bigpond.com> writes:

>I'm a newbie and I have bought the APC mag Linux pocket book, excellent
>thing, and I've followed the commands about making another user besides
>root, (when I log on as root it's fine, I can use any xwindown thingy and do
>everything), so as not to stuff anything up.  I did create another user and
>made a password, I log on and do startx, it gets to the grey screen with a
>cursor but stops, it goes no further, the only option I have is by clicking
>on the screen and
>selecting exit FVMN, or something like that.  Any ideas??



Check that all of the files in /etc/X11 are readable by any user.
chmod -R a+rX /etc/X11
Run startx with
startx -- -bpp 16 >/tmp/X 2>&1
and look into /tmp/X
Finally, you could have network problems, in that for some weird reason
some of the scripts in for example AnotherLevel make a network call.
(Can't remember why anymore but it was a problem I had)