Not able to start X as normal user

[Dennis Veatch]

On Friday 27 February 2009 2:10:15 am unni krishnan wrote:
> 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$
>

Hmm, ls -l  /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1714096 2009-02-17 17:05 /usr/bin/Xorg

that is was the default settings when Xorg is successfully installed by lunar. 
I have not known anyone needing to hand twiddle Xorg permissions, at least 
just getting X to start up. I can only assume your install got screwed up.

>
> ---------------------
> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > ---------------------
> > 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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