Not able to start X as normal user

[unni krishnan]

Hi,

  Yes, I think so. But the only thing that I have done was installed xorg
using lin. Not sure what happened. Do you know any method to find the root
cause of the issue ?


On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Dennis Veatch
<dennisveatch at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> 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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> >
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With regards,
Unnikrishnan.A


"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"
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