Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (62 mails)

[Bob Rea <gapetard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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?


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