Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade
Liam O'Toole(liam.p.otoole@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> 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
VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# ls -l /usr/bin/X
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-06-05 17:05 /usr/bin/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg*
VT1 root-3-Buddy:~# ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M 2006-05-03 00:01 /usr/bin/Xorg*
Wayne
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