* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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.
I am experiencing the same problem, and I think the problem is not in the /tmp permissions (which are correctly set on my system, anyway), nor in the cleaning of /tmp. What seems to happen is that /tmp/.X11-unix gets group ownership from the user starting X. If the X server is started by gdm, /tmp/.X11-unix is owned by the `gdm' group, if I stop gdm and do startx the same directory is owned by my group. Both result in the above error and one has to stop the X server and change group ownership on the directory to get it working. I wondered if this might be a setgid problem of some sorts, but haven't really found a solution yet. -- Kjetil
