I installed Red hat 9 awhile ago and everything was running fine. I been trying to add Xvfb into X and so I tar/gzipped copies of my /usr/X11R6/ and /etc/X11/ directories. After running into a multitude of problems with trying to get Xvfb running, I restored my original X setup from these tar/zip files. But now I can only run startx as root. If I run startx as anyone other then root I get an error message about a fatal server error and being unable to move /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old

Although this doesn't seem to be an uncommon problem I have had trouble finding solutions on forums. I was thinking of trying to reinstall X, but when I run the Xinstall.sh I got from xfree86.org I get a segmentation fault--making me think maybe I have old binaries or something...

I know this isn't much to work with...but I don't even know where to start looking to figure out what is going wrong.

-Andrew

Are you sure it wasn't some lock file?

As root, remove file mentioned in the error and try again. The user doesn't have permission to mess with these.

Problem solved...a friend of mine just came by ... Apparently XFree86 as some permissions that got lost when I tar/gzipped the directories, so he quickly restored them...Not sure how...but it works now and that's enough for me...

My other issue is trying to set up Xvfb now...

I installed Xvfb using an rpm. I run it like this:

Xvfb :3 &

Then I try it out by running:

xclock -display :3

I get the following message from Xvfb:
AUDIT: Fri Jul 11 12:17:00 2003: 3453 Xvfb: client 1 rejected from local host

And then I get from xclock:
Xlib: connection to ":3.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Error: Can't open display: :3


Thank you for the prompt reply to my other issue..I hope someone can help me with this one...

By the way, I ran:
xhost +
to disable access control and I still get the same messages...

Try to unset XAUTHORITY.