Re: Lenny XDM won't start X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.

2010-08-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Siju George writes: > X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a > directory, aborting. I googled for this and found "Problem gefunden, das Gruppen-SUID-Bit war für /tmp gesetzt. :-/" from http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user.german/browse_thread/thread/a03476dee2

Lenny XDM won't start X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.

2010-08-10 Thread Siju George
Hi, All of a Sudden My lenny wont start XDM the XDM log gives X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting. Every time I restart /tmp/.X11-unix is not created with mode 1777. If i manually change the /tmp/.X11-unix mode to 1777 ans use 'startx' I can get X alr

Re: xdm won't start X

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Harris
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Craig Hancock wrote: > Look at your .xsession-errors or /var//log/xdm.log to see what is says for > errors and > get back to me > > craig > > Paul Harris wrote: > > > when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X > > (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes b

Re: xdm won't start X

1999-04-07 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:08:22PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > hi, > > when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X > (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if nothing happened. > > I'd like to tell you more, but I can't figure out where to look for error > messages...

Re: xdm won't start X

1999-04-07 Thread Craig Hancock
Look at your .xsession-errors or /var//log/xdm.log to see what is says for errors and get back to me craig Paul Harris wrote: > hi, > > when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X > (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if nothing happened. > > I'd like to tell you

xdm won't start X

1999-04-07 Thread Paul Harris
hi, when I try to login through xdm, it disappears, I expect my X (windowmaker) to start up, but xdm comes back! as if nothing happened. I'd like to tell you more, but I can't figure out where to look for error messages... I read the xdm man page (some of it) and I don't want to have to use the -