Unable to start X Server - unless root user
Robin Wilson
robin at pensoft.UUCP
Wed Mar 27 03:51:49 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar22.131041.10327 at hollie.rdg.dec.com> attwool at exocet.enet.dec.com () writes:
> Is it normal for ONLY the root user to be able to start up 'xinit' ?, I
>hope its not,
> I've added users and choosen their startup environment using SMIT, but
>if i login to
> the newly created account I get an error message which reads...
> 'Unable to start X server'
Uh... did you by chance install over the network, or do an update over the
network? This is the problem:
the device "/dev/tty" has the wrong permissions. To correct the problem:
chmod 666 /dev/tty
There was a problem with one of the old updates that caused the "/dev/tty"
device to get the wrong permissions set, and install over the network used
to cause the same thing, but resetting the permissions clears it right up.
> InfoManager core dumping/hanging, with memory allocation failures
> infoManager pages containing binary characters..
> man ls - this command coredumps...
What is your "LANG" set to. Try the following command: echo $LANG.
It should be either "En_US" or "C". Next check the "/usr/lpp/info/data"
directory. The "ispaths" and "ispaths.full" files should be the same
size (if your using the cdrom, or if info is fully installed on your
disk).
(BTW, I am assuming that you mean "InfoExplorer" and not "InfoManager". If
you really mean "InfoManager" I've never heard of it, so none of the above
applies.)
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