[ale] xf86OpenConsole ERROR..........

[Keith Hopkins]

Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Greetings !
> 
> Under Debian-2.4.6, when I........
> 
> 	startx		; as a non-root user
> 
> I get..............
> 
> 	Server must be running with root permissions
> 	You should be using Xwrapper to start the server
> 
> 	fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) \
> 		on X server :0.0 after 0 requests \
> 		(0 known processed) with 0 events \
> 		remaining
> 
> and a return to the command prompt.
> 
> What's wrong & how is it repaired ?
> 
> BTW, if I........
> 
> 	xf86cfg -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> 
> all is well.
> 
> 
> Appreciatively,
> 
> Courtney

Hi Courtney,

   Just guessing here, but...
   Check the permissions on Xwrapper.  It should be like this:

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root         7560 Jan 19  2001 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper
    ^
---|  Note the suid bit is set.

   If that is not it, check and see what your startx script is really doing. What does it exec at the end?

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith




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