RE: X windows update
On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote:
> Can anybody help please?
>
> I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning.
>
> I get the following error:
>
> X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:
>
> I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time
> but
>
> when I reboot the problem is back again.
>
$ cd /
$ ls -al
<snip>
drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 2048 Aug 2 15:28 tmp
<snip>
make sure the perms match that. Also, /tmp should be emptied on reboot. If
this is not happening, turn it back on.
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