Re: User unable to startx

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:46:04AM -0600, nobut1 wrote:
> Hello.  I recently have run upon a very annoying problem.  For reasons 
> unknown, I can no longer start X from a standard user account.  Root 
> can startx fine.  A user can change to su and startx X fine.  But 
> whenever a standard user attempts to startx, they get a long list of 
> errors culminating with /dev/null (Permission Denied).
> 

What do you get when you type "ls -l /dev/null"?  It should look like 
this:
crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 2004-09-17 16:49 /dev/null


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