On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, A V Flinsch wrote:
> 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.
I too have seen this very same behaviour when the /home partition was
full. This looks like the source of the problem.
-Stephen-
