[Gllug] startx broken !

[Christian Smith]

- Tethys uttered:

> 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.


It's probably under /etc/X11.



>
> Tet
>

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