On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:46:04 -0600 nobut1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I recently have run upon a very annoying problem. For reasons > > unknown, I can no longer start X from a standard user account. Root > can startx fine. A user can change to su and startx X fine. But > whenever a standard user attempts to startx, they get a long list of > errors culminating with /dev/null (Permission Denied). > > I am curious to exactly what could cause such an error and exactly how > > one would go about fixing such a problem.
The most common problem I have seen that causes a problem like this is a hard drive with no free space left. If everything is installed on one partition, it means the system won't let the user write to /tmp/ or ~/ any more, among other important ones. If 'du -hs' reports this to be the actual problem, you might try 'apt-get clean' as a quick stop-gap measure to get into X and clean out any unimportant files. Even better is if you have empty partitions you can transfer some files to or another hard drive you can add, but I realize we don't always have that luxury. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
