Hi Julien, Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org on 2011-03-18 10:53 +0100): >the -logfile option makes X drop privileges. Ah, that explains what the man page was trying to tell me. From the wording there, I had expected Xorg to bail out with an error, not silently drop privileges. > Please provide the output of > - ls -l /usr/bin/X* /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > - cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 5 2009 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 601 Mar 18 01:08 /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 5 2009 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2788 Nov 6 23:54 /usr/bin/XMLRPCsh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1487944 Jan 12 04:50 /usr/bin/Xnest -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1774660 Feb 25 16:07 /usr/bin/Xorg The output of the cat command is too wide for my mailer, so I'll attach the file, and give you this instead: aschuring@neminis:~$ grep -v ^# /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config allowed_users=console (note that I have tried with both "anyone" and "console" -- choices 2 and 3 from dpkg-reconfigure x11-common -- but neither works). Thanks, Arno
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