Re: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.

[Graham Ashton <graham@coms.com>]

On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0800, Destrius wrote:
> Or rather:
> 
> # X            (or startx, initx, etc.)
> X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.
> 
> I suddenly got the above error message last night. I don't recall doing
> anything to my X installation at all.

But you upgraded your box, right?

> Anybody know what's wrong? I have no idea where the server socket directory
> is.

Set the group ownership of /tmp/.X11-unix to root. Worked for me...

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