A bunch of us got this. The answer that worked for me was to cd /tmp rm -rf .X* startx
Worked great. There has been discussion on the list as to what is broken so hopefully the maintainers know about it now. Robert Thus spake James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > In the recent potato update of the X packages from > 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will > file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error > messages on startup are: > > X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > This occurs on both Intel and Alpha, and on 3 different graphics > cards. I suspect a file protection problem since most of the changes > appeared to be security related. > > -- > /------------------------------------------------------------------\ > |James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.|Phone: (865)576-8645 | | L | A | > |Oak Ridge National Laboratory |FAX: (865)574-9172 | H | I | L | > |Research Reactors Division |work e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | P | > |P. O. Box 2008 |home [EMAIL PROTECTED]| I | U | H | > |Oak Ridge, TN. 37831-6392 |world's best neutrons | R | X | A | > \------------------------------------------------------------------/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer | For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'