> # startx ...works $ startx ...does not In > /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started > for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied Now, I saw somewhere on the web[1] that chmod 1777 /tmp might solve the problem. I remember that I was not able to write to /tmp after the problem came.
That did the job. s.