Hi. I asked this question before but got no responses. Red Hat web support says that this is beyond their standard installation support (they did give a suggestion or two). Any semi-informed guesses are welcome. Thanks.
Problem: I have a couple of diskless workstations set up that use an NFS server for their root filesystems. I recently upgraded to Red Hat 7.1 from 7.0. On these PCs, I find that I can no longer start X as a non-root user. The X server (XFree86_SVGA, since I use an onboard SIS 6326 chipset) would start and just sit there. X sort of starts up and sits there with the grey pattern and mouse "X" cursor (which moves), but no window manager would start. On the console screen where I launched startx, it would (after the usual startup messages) periodically print dots for a while before giving up with: .. .. .. giving up. xinit: Permission denied (errno 13): unable to connect to X server waiting for X server to shut down. xinit: Server error. X works fine as root, or on a conventional PC that does not NFS-mount its root filesystem. Previously in Red Hat 7.0, I worked around this problem (or something similar) by adding the line: auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so to /etc/pam.d/xserver. This little hack no longer works in 7.1, however. I have also verified that /etc/security/console.apps/xserver exists, as Red Hat support suggested. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
