> > > 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-
Except that for me, /home is only 5% used !
Thanks... Dan.
