On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:01:25 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as root, >> startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. > > Just by the by, that sort of thing is typical if /tmp isn't writable to, > or has the wrong permissions. You *could* have two problemsm /tmp plus > your huge log issue. > > [tim@gonzales ~]$ ls -ld /tmp/ > drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 2008-10-27 15:57 /tmp/ [root@Hbsk2 btth]# ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 46 root root 4096 2008-10-27 12:07 /tmp/ [root@Hbsk2 btth]# > [tim@gonzales ~]$ ls -ldZ /tmp/ > drwxrwxrwt root root system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 /tmp/ [root@Hbsk2 btth]# ls -ldZ /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt root root system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 /tmp/ [root@Hbsk2 btth]# > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 [root@Hbsk2 btth]# uname -r 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 [root@Hbsk2 btth]# -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
