On 03-Aug-2000 Ed Murray wrote: > Can anybody help please? > > I have an on-going problem starting my X Server each morning. > > I get the following error: > > X: Server socket directory has suspicious ownership, aborting: > > I change the ownership on the /tmp/.X11-unix directory to root.root each time > but > > when I reboot the problem is back again. >
$ cd / $ ls -al <snip> drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 2048 Aug 2 15:28 tmp <snip> make sure the perms match that. Also, /tmp should be emptied on reboot. If this is not happening, turn it back on.
