Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade

[swhe <amalgam.swhe@gmail.com>]

On 6/8/06, Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> Florian Kulzer(florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl) is reported to have said:
> >
> > A number of people seem to have problems with the upgrade, so maybe we
> > should compare which packages are installed in each case. I have a
> > working Xorg 7.0 on Sid and these are my installed x... packages
> > (without fonts and dev):
> >
> [cut list]
> >
> > Maybe someone with a working Xorg 7.0 on Etch can run the same command
> > so that the people with problems can compare this output to what is
> > reported on their boxes. (Please add to the dpkg query if necessary; I
> > might have forgotten something important.)
>
> 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)
     try this:
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common

> 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
>
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                                                           swhe