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Re: sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."



On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:46:58PM +0200, Nicolas Kratz happened to mention:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:23:44PM -0500, jbmaxson@surfglobal.net wrote:
> >  "X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting."
> >  
> >  dang, I thought.  So I do my googling, and found some others have asked
> >  this question with the response of basically "well, do what it says and
> >  change the ownership".  thus, the suggestion was to chown and chgrp the
> >  directory over to root and be done with it.
> 
> Up-to-date sid installation w/ working X:
> 
>  nick@balrog:~$ ll /tmp/.X11-unix/ -a
>  total 16
>  drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Mar 24 03:19 .
>  drwxrwxrwt    9 root     root        12288 Mar 30 22:41 ..
>  srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Mar 24 03:19 X0
>  srwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Feb 15 12:14 X64
> 
> HTH,
> Nick

thanks Nick. Mine looks just like that, except without the X0 and X64.  
is that the problem?

-- 
Jeff Maxson
jbmaxson@surfglobal.net

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