On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Re-posting after waiting a week...
>
> I am still getting an authentication failed trying to 'startx'
> as a regular user. I forget the proper way to fix this. I
> tried to remove .Xauthority and .Xdefaults but only root
> can use X-windows. I also tried to re-install all the
> X-windows RPMs with "rpm -Uvh --force X*".
>
> I get the following...
> xinit: Connection refused (error 111): Unable to connect to X server.
> xinit: No such process (error 3): Server error
I had something similar happen to me once.
On my system, /home is on a different partition than /root, /home was full, and
X would not start for a normal user, but would for root (root's home was not
full, but normal users were) Chexk to see if your /home partition is full.
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
