Re: Running startx fails as a non-privileged user
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 18:38 +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > 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!
>
> As root:
>
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
Didn't work.
$ startx
Fatal server error:
Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"
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giving up.
xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2.
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