Re: Debian Sarge - no X unless root

[Marcel Weber <mmweber@ncpro.com>]

Jim Seymour wrote:

> This is my first experience with Debian.  The install seemed to go okay 
> however the only way I can log into X is by session "Debian" and logging in 
> as root.  As a user the error messages are as follows:
>
> User>KDE session message:
> Could not read network connection list.
> /home/jim/.DCOPserver_localhost_0 (file does not exist)
>
> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

I had the same issue. The problem is, that the /usr/X11R6/bin folder is 
700 with owner root. I changed it to 755 and then everything works fine.

Regards

Marcel