I can't get into my window managers without logging into root and using GDM, not to mention sucks because only my ~/.xinitrc file has programs I want to run during startx and I use only minimalistic WM's. The error I get is something like "can't move /var/log/Xorg.0.og to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old". Then there is my man pages which wont work and luckily I have the exact error for this one. I get the following
I use gentoo linux incase that helps the situation further, perhaps something in portage could help. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem? thanks in advance.

EDIT: I get that same error for every single man page i try.

well, thats defidently not normal, man works fine from my end

do a resync and upgrade, i would assume the problem is with the base system.. what stage did you install from? ... and no man pages should be in /var .. so is your system completly up to date?

Nope my system isn't up to date, how do I upgrade? this is what I get after I do emerge
does that have anything to do with updating? I resync every friday for the last month, that's how long i've had gentoo .

read there documentation for portage ... its pretty good..

and when you do a emerge, and get that message "needs updating" .. it means, run etc-update and that will give you a list of files with numbers, go thru them one by one, each time selecting the correct numberic anwser (read the text, once you select a file it should display the changes the update wants to make in less, press "q" when you have seen enough, and you will get a list of actions)

also, do read the online gentoo docs about portage, they will some in handy later .... also, if the "etc-update" does help (it might not solve the problem), the changes wont be seen untill next login

Everything is fixed, I did emerge most so my man pages would work. The only thing that doesn't work now is startx on my user. It keeps saying that xorg error.

ill guess you did a stage 3 install? (i hate binary installs ... so i always assume they break when people use them .... probably used windows to long)

anyways, i would suggest removing the 2 files it talks about, then try to startx

also, you can setup the init scripts to start gdm on startup, you can also tell gnome-session to save the current session and it should use that session from then on (meaning that other programs you wanted should be started ... personally i hate gnome and gnome-session along with gdm ... the more "easyer" things get, the more i get ticked off, as i dont like being told what i want to do)

oh, I use stage1 foo, I am no begginer in linux, I just suck a bit with some things when I haven't been in those situations before... anyway, I just removed the .old file. When I tried startx it didn't have that error, it said
weird thing is, I have no root and I use xorg. I did usermod to change root's name. But you see, startx worked fine way after that on my user, it just did this when I tried putting metacity in my ~/.xinitrc then it didn't work and I got that error ever since. I blame metacity for it >_<.

yes, i blame gnome for everything hard in linux (only because everything started braking after i installed gnome ... with enlightenment all i got was an ocasional currupt background

anyways, Xorg is a fork of the xfree86 X, it forked mainly because xfree86 changed its lisence to something that might be considered in violation of the gpl (it wasent gpl, but it could conflict with gpl apps that run as clients to it)

so thats why you see xfree86 names in Xorg ... they either havent removed them all, or dont want to remove them all

Just a thought, but it's possible your configuration files got over-written when you last updated xorg - that caught me out once before.

Check files like xorg.conf to see if they've got the right settings