Re: Xserver Problems

[Bart Himel <31himel@cua.edu>]

Thanks for your help.  I changed that line in Xwrapper.config. 
Now i can start X from the command line, but gdm doesn't start at startup
like it's supposed to.   When I try to start X immediately from a normal
user account from the command line, I get this message: 

"X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting."

If, as root, I manually change the owner and group or .X11-unix, then I can
start X, and gdm can run.  But even then I can't log in through gdm as a
normal user, but only as root.

Any idea what could be causing this bizarre behavior?

Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
> > Ever since I ran apt-get upgrade and got the new XFree86 4.0.2-13 packages, I can't log in to gdm as a normal user, though I can
> > now as root since I commented out the "use-ssh-agent" line in Xsession.options file.
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> > When I try to use just startx from the command line, I'm told "user doesn't have authority to start X server".  Can someone tell me
> > which file permissions have been changed and what I should do to change this back to norma? 
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> I haven't had this problem with the most recent upgrade, although there
> were some difficulties with the earlier 4.0* series.
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> Many of the configuration files changed and some were deprecated.  I
> can't find in the docs where Branden Robinson said he made those
> changes, but I can give you some hints.
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> I believe /etc/X11/Xserver is no longer looked at, but
> /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config is
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> The line 
> allowed_users=rootonly 
> is the likely culprit  (instead of rootonly, try console or anybody)
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> You may also want to check the FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common, but
> I think the above should work
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> You could also try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 or xfree86-common to
> change the access values
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> Tom
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