Re: Running startx fails as a non-privileged user

[Dennis Stosberg <lists@stosberg.net>]

Am 02.02.2005 um 12:34 schrieb Ron Johnson:

> Running Sid with X 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10.
> 
> After running X as root, running startx as a regular user instantly
> fails, saying that it can't move XFree86.0.log.old.
> 
> That obviously sounds like a file permissions problem, but I don't
> know how to resolve it without granting a+w permissions to /var/log,
> which would obviously be stupid!
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  (I'm running as root now, which I want to
> stop ASAP.)

Have you allowed your console users to start the X server?
Take a look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and its manual page. 

Regards, 
Dennis

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