Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread unni krishnan
Hi I am getting following error when starting X as normal user : Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686 Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686 (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted) (WW)

Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread Torgeir Veimo
On 26 Feb 2009, at 23:51, unni krishnan wrote: I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please help. Are you running with selinux enabled? -- Torgeir Veimo torg...@pobox.com ___ xorg mailing list

Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM, unni krishnan unnikrishna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am getting following error when starting X as normal user : Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686 Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET

Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread unni krishnan
Dan, setuid was not set. I have set that and X is working now. bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg -rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 1563180 Feb 19 15:31 /usr/bin/Xorg bash-3.2$ Thanks for the solution :-) -- - With regards, Unnikrishnan.A A candle loses nothing by lighting another