On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Doug Milam <doug_mi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm sorry I cannot reproduce the output here,
You should. Capturing startx output is easy: startx > startlx.log 2>&1 and then the output is there... but when I "startx" as a non-root user on my 4.5/amd64/bsd.mp box (not -stable, but the stock install), several errors are displayed (in paraphrase): > > 1. "X is already running on the console" -- though I have just logged in after a reboot. This may be the case if for some reason X crashed so badly that it couln't clean up its lock files. Before trying the above command, remove /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 and /tmp/.X0-lock if any of those files exists. That will allow you to see the reason why X crashed the 1st time. > 2. "Can't create /tmp/<some-file>" -- /tmp is mounted as mfs under swap, like so: > swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=153600 0 0 The suggestion that the permissions on /tmp are not 1777 made by Bob may be correct. > > There are others I cannot even remember in paraphrase, unfortunaly Unfortunatly this is a very bad attitude. If you expect peope to make some effort to diagnose your problem and help you, please start by making some efforts too and provide precise facts. > That said, I have no problem with "startx" as root. My non-root user is already added to group wheel, if that is notable. Also what are the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg (ls -l output). If you've installed the X sets manually after the initial install, you may have forgotten the 'p' flag to tar, and thus have lost the setuid bit on the way. -- Matthieu Herrb
