Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (62 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Fri September 8 2006 09:57, Bob Rea wrote:
> On Fri September 8 2006 12:21 pm, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > On Sep 08, 06 11:30:45 -0400, Bob Rea wrote:
> > > I have lost the ability to run kde as my normal user. It
> > > will run as root, but I don't like to do that.
> > >
> > > Here is my .X.err fille:
> > > bob@gandalf:~> cat .X.err
> > > /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 237:  5510 Bus error
> > > xauth -q -f $xserverauthfile  <<EOF
> > > add :$dummy . $mcookie
> > > EOF
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > Cannot move old log file ("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to
> > > "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"
> >
> > You probably have run Xorg as root some time. Remove the
> > logfile manually, and try again.
>
> Which log file? I have tried removing both in various
> combinations. This has happened to me before and I forget what
> the solution is.
>
> does being able to run it by vnc tell you anything?

Try "rm -rf /tmp/* "  and then "rm -rf /tmp/.* "  this will clear out 
everything in that directory including the xauth file which might be the root 
of you problem, it will be recreated at login.  

HTH, Curtis.
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