Re: X broken at 3.3.6-8 potato update!!!
A bunch of us got this. The answer that worked for me was to
cd /tmp
rm -rf .X*
startx
Worked great. There has been discussion on the list as to what
is broken so hopefully the maintainers know about it now.
Robert
Thus spake James D. Freels (freelsjd@ornl.gov):
>
> In the recent potato update of the X packages from
> 3.3.6-7 to 3.3.6-8, it caused it to quit working. I will
> file a bug report if not fixed right away. The error
> messages on startup are:
>
> X: server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting.
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> giving up.
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> This occurs on both Intel and Alpha, and on 3 different graphics
> cards. I suspect a file protection problem since most of the changes
> appeared to be security related.
>
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