Re: I killed user's x server

[Ray Olszewski]

A couple of thoughts ...

At 03:46 PM 11/21/02 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:

Thanks, Ray. I'm currently using a usre xterm in a root session, and
that's reduces functionality a lot. I've appended two BIG logs, and so
this message is long.

The copy that got here did not include any attachments or quoted text.

> >User still unable to start X. Root can do it, but not user. When user
> >tries, it reports not being able to load pex5 or xie. These modeles are
> >present and I've run ldconfig.
>
> A permissions problem, perhaps. What mode are they?

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       597369 Aug 13  2001 pex5.so
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       600739 Aug 13  2001 xie.so

I still think this is not your key problem. When root starts X successfully, do these modules load (check the log)?
[...]

[root@hartford-hwp root]# netstat -l
...
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node Path

[...]

unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 1741 /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
[...]
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 3750 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
[...]
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 3795 /tmp/.ICE-unix/2420
[...]
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 3844 /tmp/.sawfish-root/hart
ford-hwp.com:0.0

Well, this is what I've got, but don't know how to interpret it. They
all say "stream" (TC type), but one is nevertheless associated with
/tmp/.X11-unix/XO.

X0, not XO (your X runs on DISPLAY 0). I left in the others that are probably relevant to X, and I don't know what the ones I deleted from the list were (except for the lpr-related one, assuming you run the lpd service).
[...]

> One final, long-shot thought ... how full is /tmp?

[...[

[root@hartford-hwp root]# df /tmp
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10             1011928     17432    943092   2% /tmp

Yes, I know that's a big /tmp.

Not by modern standards, with today's large hard disks. In any case, it is apparently not your problem (unless you have an inode shortage - what does "df -i /tmp" report about inode availability?).

So ... I'm left guessing. really. What does "ls -l /tmp/.*" tell you about permissions for .X11-unix?

Unless the complete failure log has something helpful, or the post-creation changes you make to a user account are significant, I'm stumped. Sorry.


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