On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Brian Fuller wrote: >I would be happy to send you what is asked for in the error message but I >don't know what that is. >This work station has been working happily for nearly a year and one day it >just stopped letting any >of the users run startx. Interestingly, root is able to run startx and once >I have console window up as root I I >have to type xhost + then su to my user name and get back to work in a >fairly normal way. None of the users can >execute xhost + until root has done it. Also interesting when any of the >users execute XFree86 -version we get the same message as given above when >startx fails. > >The version of XFree86 is 4.2.0 (Red Hat version 4.2.0-8). >My version of Red Hat is 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp Wow, your X server and kernel are both ancient and remotely exploitable. Hopefully nobody has tried to hack into your system already. Running up2date immediately after OS installation and upgrading to the latest security updates is always a good idea thank heavens! -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
