Kent West wrote:
Log into an ordinary terminal, and stop/kill any X-related processes.
(Use ps ax and kill as necessary, or use other means such as
/etc/init.d/kdm stop).
Earlier I had purged xserver-xorg and all its dependencies and
reinstalled it. No change.
Then I logged
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Now as a normal (non-root) user, run startx. What happens?
I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
users appeared, the
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run dpkg-reconfigure x11-common
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
Kent West wrote:
I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right;
sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't take. The three legal
options for that line, according to man Xwrapper.config, are
rootonly, console, and anybody. For most situations, you'd want
console.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ken Heard wrote:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago
there was a problem with
Ken Heard wrote:
A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop.
The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing
it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I
replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted
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