On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:00:29PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm getting the following errors running startx from console as a
> nonpriviledged user:
>
> X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.
> var: allowed_users, value: rootonly.
> var: nice_value, value: -10.
I came across this error while trying to figure out why the new X 4
power management was killing my login sessions (still unsolved). Turned
out it was fixed by small changes to XF86Config-4. You may not have the
same options, but I had some options in the ServerFlags that were
written like:
Section "ServerFlags"
BlankTime 10
StandbyTime 20
SuspendTime 25
Offtime 30
EndSection
changing to:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "10"
Option "StandbyTime" "20"
Option "SuspendTime" "25"
Option "Offtime" "30"
Option "NoPM" "true"
EndSection
made the problem go away. The "NoPM" told X not to use it's idea of
power management (the kernel/BIOS is already configured to do this, and
blanking/offtime still happen -- some kind of conflict I guess).
So, you might have some syntax problems.
--
Eric G. Miller <[email protected]>
