Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 19:35:25 -0400
Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:

[SNIP]

> 
> I upgraded Etch and my list is the same as you posted.  X does works
> for root but not for any other user.  (Not a good idea to run X as
> root tho)
> 
> When anyone else logs in the error is
> --------------------------------
>  "Fatal server error:
>   Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to
> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old" -------------------------------
> 
> This can be overcome by changing permissions to /var/log to allow the
> log to be changed.  (Not a very good idea but had to see why the
> error occured)
> 
> With the log permissions changed, a new error pops up:
> -------------------------------
> "Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not
> permitted)"
> 
> XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> -------------------------------
> 
> I have not been able to find the reason for this error, yet.
> 
> Wayne
> 

What are the permissions of /usr/bin/X? I have the following:

otoolel@po:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 18416 2006-05-21 20:53 /usr/bin/X

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Liam