On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Heard wrote:
> >
> >xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
> >/etc/X11/X is not executable
> >xinit: Server error
>
>
> This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago
> there was a
Kent West wrote:
> I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right;
> sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't "take". The three legal
> options for that line, according to "man Xwrapper.config", are
> "rootonly", "console", and "anybody". For most situations, you'd wan
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common"
and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
Kent West wrote:
> I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only.
> or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common"
> and change the setting that way.
I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed
users appeared, the o
Ken Heard wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Now as a normal (non-root) user, run "startx". What happens?
I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines:
xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110
/etc/X11/X is not executable
xinit: Server error
Kent West wrote:
> Log into an "ordinary terminal", and stop/kill any X-related processes.
> (Use "ps ax" and "kill" as necessary, or use other means such as
> "/etc/init.d/kdm stop").
Earlier I had purged xserver-xorg and all its dependencies and
reinstalled it. No change.
Then
Ken Heard wrote:
A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop.
The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing
it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I
replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted to
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