Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1046 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 Mar 2011 18:56:39 James Knott wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
> > I've installed 11.4 on my ThinkPad R31 and it's completely DOA.  I get
> > to the login screen and enter my ID and password.  It then progresses
> > for a while an then there are video problems, with the colours washing
> > out to yellow-white.  It's a good thing I saved a disk image, so I can
> > go back to 11.0.
>
> Further on this:
>
> I can start failsafe mode and also run TWM or ICEWM.
>
> If I start with init 3 and then startx, I get some error messages:
>
> 'xauth: file /home/jknott/.serverauth.1931 does not exist'
>
> 'Fatal server error:
> Cannot move old log file "/vr/log/Xorg.0.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old'

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632737 removed the setuid bit from 
X, for security - startx is apparently deprecated.  

Will

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