George R hat gesagt: // George R wrote:
> Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages
> and howto's until my eyes have crossed.
>
> When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm.
> If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol.
>
> I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x. I know I've
> overlooked something small. After the bazzillionth time trying this I'm
> half way there.
X should be suid root and look like:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4880 Jun 23 23:46 /usr/bin/X11/X
^ important
Something must have messed up your setup, maybe you could try to set X back
with a
chmod -v 4755 /usr/bin/X11/X
as root.
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