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Re: X-Windows.



On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:12:25PM +1200, voy1d wrote:
> I'm getting the following problem when starting X.
> 
> X:  Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting:
> 
> Someone suggested reinstalling the system, but does anyone else have any
> other ideas?

Check for files under /tmp/.X11-unix.

If anything exists, you may want to delete the entire directory, or
change permissions to match:

  drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         1024 Jun 26 10:39 /tmp/.X11-unix


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