I wrote: > can other people with the same problem please confirm that they indeed > have bogus /lib/libX*.so* files? Then please make a tarball with these > files before removing them, maybe this could help us to understand > where do these files come from. And if these files do not exist, please run strace -f -e open startx 2> open.log as root, and send this open.log file (compressed with gzip or bzip2). Thanks Denis