Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

[Ken Heard <ken@heard.name>]

Kent West wrote:

> I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right;
> sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't "take". The three legal
> options for that line, according to "man Xwrapper.config", are
> "rootonly", "console", and "anybody". For most situations, you'd want
> "console".

	Did so; returns "allowed_users=console" and "nice_value=-10".

> What is the output of "ls -lh /etc/X11/X"?

>> westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ls -lh /etc/X11/X
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-04-28 12:11 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg
> 
> (Yours will likely be slightly different.)

	Mine is exactly the same as yours, except for the date.

> Then, what is the output of "ls -lh /usr/bin/Xorg"?
> 
>> westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ls -lh /usr/bin/Xorg
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M 2007-02-03 17:30 /usr/bin/Xorg

	Again, exactly the same as yours, except for the date.
> 
>>     You will recall however that the sudden inability to run
>> the xserver occurred on my Sarge desktop the same day (Feb 7) as it
>> occurred on my laptop.  So I will keep on this thread that particular
>> problem for both computers.
>>
>>     Sarge of course does not have X-common; so I ran dpkg-reconfigure
>> xfree86, which returned:
>>
>> System startup links for /etc/init.d/xfree86-common already exist.
>> Setting up X server socket directory /tmp/.X11-unix...done.
>> Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/.ICE-unix...done.
>>   
> 
> This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago
> there was a problem with permissions in one or more of the Debian
> branches. What do these files look like?
>> westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ls -lha /tmp
>> <snips>
>> drwxrwxrwt  2 root  root  1.0K 2007-02-08 10:22 .ICE-unix
>> drwxrwxrwt  2 root  root  1.0K 2007-02-08 10:21 .X11-unix

	On the Laptop with Etch, once again the same, except for the dates.
Mine are dated today.

> Also, what do the perms on your /tmp directory look like?
>> westk[@westek]:/home/westk:> ls -lhd /tmp
>> drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4.0K 2007-02-13 17:18 /tmp

	On the laptop, the same, except for the time and the number following
the perms is 5 instead of 14.

			Regards,

			Ken Heard