Getting the root Desktop Back

[decentandsimple]

Hi All,

Few Days back I have installed a MTS Data Boardband Card in my Suse Linux Server 11.0 Since Then When ever I try loggin using the ROOT A/c The screen with Blue Background and the movable mouse is appearing and the desktop is not showned to me due to which i am not able to get the GUI Mode (My Desktop).

Also once I created a New user in my SUSE LINUX SERVER using that A/c I am getting the GUI Desktop but in root i am not able to get it.

It looks like there is some service which is not getting started and my Root desktop get freezed.

Can any one help me in this concern

Regard
Vikas Kanojia

[linxt]

Hi All,

Few Days back I have installed a MTS Data Boardband Card in my Suse Linux Server 11.0 Since Then When ever I try loggin using the ROOT A/c The screen with Blue Background and the movable mouse is appearing and the desktop is not showned to me due to which i am not able to get the GUI Mode (My Desktop).

Also once I created a New user in my SUSE LINUX SERVER using that A/c I am getting the GUI Desktop but in root i am not able to get it.

It looks like there is some service which is not getting started and my Root desktop get freezed.

Can any one help me in this concern

Regard
Vikas Kanojia

Hi Vikas and welcome to the forum.

May not be able to solve your problem but I do have some questions. Why do you need a GUI on a server? Can't you control it from the command line? What desktop is this, KDE, Gnome, other? Did you get any error messages when you tried to log in? If so, would you please post them for us?

It is considered poor form (security risk) to log into a GUI as root. Others have lost data when the GUI crashes.

Tom

[gogalthorp]

Actually it is worse logging in to a GUI as root can change the ownership of important files in a users directory and not allow the user to log in anymore. There is nothing you can do in a GUI as root that you can not do in a user account by becoming root with su/sudo or one of the gui su commands.