X-server problem at startup

Rahiiyja · 01-06-2007, 04:01 PM

Hi.
I have been running Slackware current (11.0) for two weeks, without any problems at all concerning X.
I also have a Windows partition on the same HDD as my Linux one.

Today I was using Windows, and then rebooted to start Linux. I was going to create a new user, I had decided. Well, as root I typed:

Code:

adduser user

and went through the regular user creation prompts, without any errors. When I then logged into my new user and started X, I got the following:

Code:

xauth: Creating new authority file /home/user/.serverauth.4827

/usr/x11R6/bin/xauth: Creating new authority file /home/user/.xauthority
/usr/x11R6/bin/xauth: Creating new authority file /home/user/.xauthority

Fatal server error:
Cannot move old log file("/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old")

giving up
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error.

user@computer:~$

Anyone have a clue as to what is going on? As I said I've had no problems whatsoever earlier, but after rebooting Windows and starting up Linux I get this.

Any help/advice is much appreciated.

EDIT: I have my BIOS in MBR, if that makes any difference?

/Rahiiyja

kotnik · 01-06-2007, 04:07 PM

BTW, you can't have BIOS in MBR. You might have a boot loader there.

Just one question: can you start X as a root? Did you try going "init 4" and then logging in as a normal user?

Rahiiyja · 01-06-2007, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kotnik

BTW, you can't have BIOS in MBR. You might have a boot loader there.

Just one question: can you start X as a root? Did you try going "init 4" and then logging in as a normal user?

Sorry, I meant boot loader of course.

I can start X as root with no problem. I also tried going init 4 from the root, and then logging in with user, with no problems.
The question is: why did init 5 suddenly stop working for my user account, and what should I do to be able to create new usable accounts in init 5? It would be nice to know how to avoid this error in the future.

Rahiiyja · 01-07-2007, 11:27 AM

Thought I'd bump this one.

Must be someone who has experienced this before, right?

bioe007 · 02-18-2007, 11:56 PM

hey, did you ever get this fixed? I am having the SAME problem right now.

The last thing I was doing was installing some software (gEDA, using their installer) which was trying to install/update guile and then I ran out of disk space on my root fs.

I removed some downloads and emptied the .Trash (using fluxbox key to ExecCommand {rm -rf ~/.Trash/*} and the next time I tried startx got the same 'can't move ...' error.

+I can run X as root but not as a regular user.

+I tried adding a new account, changing ownership/permissions of the .log files but nothing has worked so far.

Any suggestions???

thanks!

bioe007 · 02-19-2007, 12:56 AM

FIXED!

Hey, I found this and tried it.

It works! I dunno how it got changed in the first place, but its working now!

as root:

Code:

#chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg

hope that helps you too!

Rahiiyja · 02-20-2007, 05:53 AM

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind if I run into the problem again.
I myself made a compromise, and used another runlevel (don't rememer which because I am running Debian nowadays).