Keith, You've made my day ;-) > > Xsession: X session started for brownh at ... > > open: Permission denied > > > The "classic" reason for the problem is apparently having the wrong > > permissions for the /var directory. However, there is no apparent > > ownership or permission problem that I can see. Debian sarge installed > > /var with: > > > > drwxr-xr-x root root > > > > However, people are often told that the permissions should be: > > > > drwxrwxrwt > > Mode 1777 on /var/ ? Hrmmmm... I don't know of any filesystem hierarchy > standard that calls for 1777 on /var/. /var/tmp/, sure, but not /var/. > /var/ has always been 0755 as far as I can remember. :) > > Given your 'man' example below, I suspect that permissions on one or more > temp directories are screwed. Check permissions on such dirs as /tmp/, > /var/tmp/, perhaps even /usr/tmp/. All should be 1777. If they are > mounted as a 'tmpfs' filesystem you will get this 1777 mode > automagically. I either got bad advice or misunderstood good advice ;-(. I followed your mode suggestions, and the problem disappeared: users can start X now. Thanks! I've no idea why the default permissions weren't right. > > Here's the full XFree86.0.log (it reports no errors). > > [...] > > > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! > > Well this line claims your X server was trying to grab fonts from a > local font server (xfs) which probably wasn't running. You might want > to check this out too. Yes, in installing all the X packages, I left out the xfs. I installed it, and no longer get this alert. Thanks again! Haines Brown _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
