Re: Permission denied on startx after suspend resume

[Carsten Milling <cmil@hashtable.de>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:34:42AM -0400, Barry Hawkins wrote:
[...]
>     The state of /dev/null turned out to be this:
> 
> ~# ls -l /dev/null
> - -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2004-10-13 14:11 /dev/null
> 
[...]

Just a guess, did you compile/install a vanilla 2.6.8 kernel as root?
This kernel had a bad Makefile for ppc that trashes /dev/null during
make/make modules_install. So you would have to recreate /dev/null
whenever you recompile this kernel. The Makefile has been fixed in the
latest 2.6.9 prepatches (since 2.6.9-rc3 I believe).

Best regards,
Carsten Milling