Re: HELP: X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.
Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Berthold Cogel wrote:
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> > Hello!
> >
> > After updating to XFree86 4.x I'm unable to start a local X session. I
> > can start XFree86 manualy, but startx or xdm give me the message 'X:
> > /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicoius ownership, aborting.'. After a reboot,
> > /tmp/.X11-unix is set to owner 'root' and group 'staff'. Setting group
> > as 'root' fixes the problem, so that I can run startx. Is there a method
> > to fix this problem permanently?
>
> which are the permissions on /tmp directory?
>
> maybe you have a 's' in group permissions; setting it to 'x' may solve
> your problem.
>
> try: # chmod 1777 /tmp
> and change its ownership to root.root (chown root.root /tmp)
>
Thank you very much! This works!
Berthold Cogel
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