On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > > >xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110 > >/etc/X11/X is not executable > >xinit: Server error > > > 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 > > 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 which brings to mind a problem that cropped up a bunch in the xfree86->xorg transition... ugh, my poor brain. Seems like there were a bunch of posts about people losing X with similar errors. I'll see if I can grep it out of the archives. A
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