On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:14:08PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > I had a brief power fluctuation the other day. Despite being plugged into a > cheap UPS (which is going back to the store this weekend), my box reset > itself. Boot-up file system check found no errors. However, when I logged > in, X would not start. I got errors that sections of my XF86Config file were > unrecognized. I installed a stable system and updated to testing. I'm > pretty sure this upgraded my XF from 3.? to 4.1.0. startx, which had worked > fine before the power dump, was evidently causing 3.? to try and start. > Executiong XFree86 directly resulted in X starting (with no desktop, fo > course.) A bit of poking about and I found out that /usr/bin/X11/X was not a > link to a server. It was an actual executable. I renamed it and linked X > directly to XFree86. I started XF as root but got an error as non-root. I > had to suid root XFree86. I can now run XF as non-root, although I got an > error concerning the sound system that /tmp/something did not belong to user. > (I don't even have speakers hooked to this system, so I'm not overly > concerned with it now.) > > Did the power dump cause this problem or did it just bring it to light > (perhaps an update or install of something inserted the problem but I hadn't > rebooted or exited X since then)? Is X normally an executable vice a link > under debian testing? Was linking X directly to XFree86 the correct way to > fix this? Should XFree86 normally be suid root? /etc/X11/X is a symlink to your xserver in /usr/bin/X11. /usr/bin/X11/X is an executable. It is the xserver wrapper. See man 5 Xserver.config. If you have a broken xserver wrapper, try reinstalling xserver-common. If you upgrade from stable to testing, you may not have been running X4.1. To use X4.1 you have to run dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. -- Jerome
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