On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 12:12:25PM +1200, voy1d wrote: > I'm getting the following problem when starting X. > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > Someone suggested reinstalling the system, but does anyone else have any > other ideas?
Check for files under /tmp/.X11-unix. If anything exists, you may want to delete the entire directory, or change permissions to match: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jun 26 10:39 /tmp/.X11-unix -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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