Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user

["hhding.gnu" <hhding.gnu@gmail.com>]

web32p2@onlime.ch wrote:
> > # 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.
>
> I will try this when I am back home after work and let
> you know.
>
> sam
>
> [1] linuxforen.de
>
>
>
>   
For directory /tmp, you should chmod 777 /tmp and chmod o+t /tmp[1]
The t means stick, man chmod for detail.

[1]
dhh@mud:~$ stat /tmp
 File: `/tmp'
 Size: 2048            Blocks: 4          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 808h/2056d      Inode: 2           Links: 6
Access: (1777/drwxrwxrwt)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2008-07-28 20:55:21.000000000 +0800
Modify: 2008-08-06 10:50:21.000000000 +0800
Change: 2008-08-06 10:50:21.000000000 +0800
dhh@mud:~$