On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:03:40PM +0200, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hi all! > Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: > When I type "startx" as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and > twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same there is > only a grey screen with a mouse-cursor coming up and doing nothing until I > kill the X-Server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. On the original screen from > which I tried to start is shown the following error message: > > AUDIT: Thu Apr 3 20:34:48 2008 836 X: client 1 rejected from localhost (uid > 1001) > Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 > Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server > Xlib: Protocol not supported by server > > .xinitrc and .xsession both have the same contens "exec startxfce4" and the > permissions "rwxr-xr-x". > > Any thoughts please?
Does the regular user have an ~/.Xauthority file? If not, you might have to create it with xauth(1), or copy it from the root user. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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