[Gllug] startx broken !

[- Tethys]

On 9/11/06, salsaman at xs4all.nl <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> I was restricting some file permissions in /etc and /var today, and I
> think I overdid it a bit. Now I can only do startx as root !
>
> If I do startx as a normal user, I get the following type of error:
>
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/foo/.serverauth.5135
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?xinit:  Server error.

Run "strace -f -e open startx" to see where it's failing, and correct
the ownership of the file in question.

Tet
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug