I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop. I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the message: Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old" and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for rebuilding. If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:07, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop.
I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the message:
Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for rebuilding.
If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user.
Of course, you're root then.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
Seems to me a permission problem. Are the permissions of the /var/log directory 0755? Is the /var/log directory mounted on a writable partition? (check /etc/fstab, execute 'mount' without arguments) Cheers, Leen
On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:07, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop.
I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the message:
Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for rebuilding.
If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
I think your problem is with the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg Try chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg and then try startx again. Did you by any chance select "paranoid" permissions in the installation. You should be aware that very many things will fail to work with the "paranoid" settings.
That was the solution. Many thanks. Now, the only thing that I wonder about is why didn't the process of creating a user change the permissions on Xorb? At 04:09 PM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
On Thursday 18 November 2004 17:07, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop.
I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the message:
Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for rebuilding.
If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
I think your problem is with the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
Try
chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
and then try startx again.
Did you by any chance select "paranoid" permissions in the installation. You should be aware that very many things will fail to work with the "paranoid" settings.
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