Hi A computer I was doing some upgrades on ceased working. I suddenly found that I can no longer run X as a user other than root. If I use xdm, I just get kicked back to the login screen. If I run startx, the X-server just shuts down with no diagnostic messages.
Unfortunatly I can't even catch the error messages when using xdm cos they get sent to tty1 and immediatly disappear behind the login prompt :( When using startx there is nothing abnormal reported. I did manage to see this in ~/.xsession-errors : exclusive open for tmp_name failed in m4_defs: Permission denied The /usr is shared between 2 computers and works fine on one of them. Nevertheless I tried doing a chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA and even a chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/xconsole to no avail. (both currently has permissions set to -rwxr-xr-x) Someone suggested that one could try: rm /dev/console; mknod /dev/console c 4 0 but this made no difference. The machine usually has /usr and /home nfs mounted. I tried using the local copies (straight debian) but this made no difference. That leads me to believe the problem is in another directory. I have rebooted several times, so it shouldn't be a /tmp/.X11 problem either. (it currently has permissions set to drwxrwxrwx) Any other ideas ? (it must be something to do with permissions cos root login gives no problems [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Regards, jay addendum: Just before I was about to post this message I came across the following in DejaNews: [the messages in the .xsession-errors] > Ah. It's a problem with fvwm. Do you have strange permissions set on > /tmp? /tmp should be owned by root.root, with mode 1777 (drwxrwxrwt). > Yes thats the solution. The permissions were set wrong for /tmp Phew !!!! People have reported that this is caused by the base-1.1.0-13.deb but I have base-1.1.0-14.deb on 2 computers and only 1 of them caused these problems. Could it be due to an unclean shutdown? ps: CC any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I'm not on the list -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
