Re: [SLE] Startx Problem

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