Linux (antix) help

[Iain]

I know there are a few of you out there who know their way around linux. I'm stuck. I burned an antix 7.5 cd today and poked around with the livecd, and really liked what I saw. It's familar to an ubuntu user like me, but it is really nicely integrated with fluxbox and I love fluxbox. So I went ahead an installed, and it seemed all went well, it allowed me to set my /home partition as the new /home partition (mint fluxbox did not do this).

Rebooted, got to the log in, used my password and got:

"failed to execute login command"

So ctrl-alt-backspace and logged in that way which it allowed me to do. Startx ended me up in icewm but everything looked good, /home was there etc, it works, it allowed me to burn another cd. Logged out and back to the non-gui log in, typed 'startx fluxbox', screen goes blank and then back to where I was with a lengthy output.

Looking through it it talks a lot about fonts, says that errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server.

The lines that seem important read:

xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): no program named "xterm" in PATH

Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin
is in your path

Any ideas? I've reinstalled a couple of times using a couple of different cds. Both burned fine, and no troubles booting to livecd or installing. Problems only begin when trying to log in to fluxbox.

[lee n. field]

it allowed me to set my /home partition as the new /home partition

check ownership and permissions on the your home (/home/<yourusername>) directory.

Mine looks like "drwxr-xr-x 144 myusername myusername 20480 2008-10-14 18:00 myusername"
                            permissions   user               group                                                            directory name

I suspect this may be screwed up.

[2swap]

What does 'which xterm' say?

[Jim147]

Did you use the md5 checksum to verify your ISO?
What speed did you burn at?
Some image files can get a little strange if burned too fast.

[Iain]

.iso file was fine. Burned it at 2x. Not at home 2swap, will post that when I get home.

http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15771&highlight=%22failed+execute+login+command%22

That seems to be the answer. It seems that by preserving the /home directory things got complicated:

Edit: You'll need to copy /etc/skel/.xinitrc file to your users directory /home/username/.xinitrc

In fact you may wish to copy over all the contents of /etc/skel to your home folder.

So I'll try copying from the commandline and if that don't work I suppose I could divide my / partition into one large partition (for OS) and one small one for /home. Tell antix to use that as the new home partition and ignore the existing home partition. Then manually swap them once the install is completed. That will really tax my skills though, I think I have done something like it before, but it was quite a while ago.

[Iain]

Logged in to icewm as root and copied the files across. I'm posting from antix right now. Lots to sort out, but that is the joy of fluxbox.