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.