Not able to start X as normal user

unni krishnan unnikrishnan.a at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 08:10:15 CET 2009


Hi,

  I have got a fix from Xorg mailing list :

setuid was not set. I have set that and X is working now.

bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 1563180 Feb 19 15:31 /usr/bin/Xorg
bash-3.2$


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With regards,
Unnikrishnan.A

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM, unni krishnan <unnikrishnan.a at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I have restarted the machine and error changed. I am attaching the conf
> and log file.
>
>
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> With regards,
> Unnikrishnan.A
>
> "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:
>
>> Thursday 26 of February 2009 23:46:09 unni krishnan wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I am getting following error when starting X as normal user :
>> >
>> > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686
>> > Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP
>> PREEMPT
>> > Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686
>> > (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
>> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty7 failed: Operation not permitted
>> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: Operation not permitted
>> > xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>> >
>> > I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please
>> > help.
>>
>> Please attach:
>> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>
>> thanks for report,
>> Zbigniew  'zbiggy' Luszpinski
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