Re: Debin Help

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Sam Rosenfeld wrote:

> I have a related problem which I have sidestepped by using "xdm"
> instead of "startx".   Although I have loaded Gnome, I rarely use it
> explicitly (don't particularly like KDE -- in fact, the same goes for Gnome). 
> But I would like to return to some form of "startx". 
>
> On trying to initiate X by "startx" under root, the following error messages 
> appear:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xinit: unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> sam
>
>
>  
As a general rule you don't want to run X as root. Does X start as a 
normal user? First thing I'd check is the "allowed_users=" line in 
/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. If that's not it, I'd suspect .Xauthority in 
/root's home dir.

Kent