Re: x only works for root
From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/30/03
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:16:36 -0500
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:08:06 -0600, tripolar wrote:
> I have had problems with permissions in /usr/X11R6
> I set them #chmod 755 -R /usr/X11R6/
> does that look right?
> that has worked in the past.
> I was told to remove files in /tmp relating to dcop or orbit ( sorry I
> forgot and I am not on that machine because x only works for root and I
> have yet to figure out mutt ;-) )
> I have messed with permissions in /tmp
> what user & group should /tmp be?
> at this time the only twm for regular users though I cant open any apps
> like kmail or evolution or mozilla
> $kmail
> trying to creat local folder:Permission denied
> failed to create /tmp/ksocket-tripolar/
> _KDE_IceTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
> ....
> DCOPServer self test failed
> kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started
> .....
> Can't setup DCOP communication
>
> Any suggestions? again I messed up /tmp user & group & permissions. need
> to know the correct user, group and permissions of /tmp
> also anything relationg to dcop & permissions to get reg users to log
> into x from gdm
> Thanks
/tmp should be owned by root and open to everyone:
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 4096 Nov 30 14:14 /tmp
as root, do
chown root:root /tmp
chmod 777 /tmp
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