Re: Debian Sarge - no X unless root - fixed
On Sunday 16 November 2003 05:56, you wrote:
> JS> This is my first experience with Debian. The install seemed to go okay
> JS> however the only way I can log into X is by session "Debian" and
> logging in JS> as root. As a user the error messages are as follows:
>
> A hint: ls -ld /usr/X11R6/bin and see if it's executable only for root.
> If it is, chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin and report back to the list that it
> worked. It helped for a friend of mine.
That's it. It was installed as 700. Changed to 755 and KDE works great.
Gnome is another story though. I have already had to apt-get "gnome-session"
and it looks like I am still missing packages required to run Gnome. Since I
am used to using KDE this is fine for now.
Thanks,
Jim Seymour
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