[wplug] spontaneous X combustion?

[Bill Blais]

Hey folks,

It was good to see many of you at the last meeting. Already, I've come 
up with a question, probably straightforward but I haven't had the time 
to figure it out so I figure I'll just send it out there...

I'm running Fedora Core 1 on an old P2 266. It seemed to be working 
fine until one day, magically, I stopped being able to start X. That 
is, I can't run startx. It blanks the screen for a few seconds then 
crashes back to the command line. /var/log/XFree86.0.log doesn't show 
anything of interest. No errors at all. The last line recorded is (II) 
DevInputMice: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded.

I discovered that it runs without a hitch as root, so my first 
suspicion is that it is a permission problem.

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx itself is 755/root/root
/etc/X11/XF86Config is 664/root/root (I tried opening it up without 
joy.)

Now, I'm sure there are other files with permissions that need to be 
set correctly but I'm not sure what they might be. Any input?

Bill
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be 
living apart."
ee cummings
 
bill.blais at pobox.com
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