On Thursday 01 November 2001 17:37, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Christopher Wong wrote: > > 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. > > Check the permissions on /tmp of the NFS mounted file system.
Thanks for the suggestion. The permissions of /tmp is fine, but I did take a look at the contents of the Unix socket. /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 has permissions srwxr-xr-x whenever I start X on that machine. If I do a "chmod a+w X0" on that socket after it is created, X continues its startup fine. I have no idea what is going on here, but I'll put it into Bugzilla. Normally, permissions of /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 is srwxrwxrwx. Chris _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
