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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:

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On Sep 08, 06 11:30:45 -0400, Bob Rea wrote:

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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. - -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again!

Like the song say: "Everything's 'Zen'... I don't think so"!