error startx as user

Donnie Berkholz spyderous at gentoo.org
Fri Mar 11 21:51:20 PST 2005


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abac wrote:
> hi,
> i can startx as root but when try to startx as user,this is the error:
> server error:
> Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to
> "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
> 
> 
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>         at http://wiki.X.Org
> for help.
> 
> giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> this is the xorg permissons:
> drwxr-xr-x    8 root user   4096 Aug 12  2004 X11R6
> plz help me.

Check the permissions elsewhere. For example, if /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
isn't writable, that would obviously create a problem like this.
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