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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: xserver startup log access problem
From:       Adam Jackson <ajax () nwnk ! net>
Date:       2005-11-29 2:50:29
Message-ID: 200511282150.32027.ajax () nwnk ! net
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On Monday 28 November 2005 21:06, trewornan wrote:
> X froze whilst I was using OpenOffice and I had to
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to unlock it.
>
> Afterwards whenever I tried startx I would get the
> error "Unable to move /var/log/Xorg.0.log to
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old".
>
> I tried it as root and X started up no problem so I
> guessed it must be a permission problem.
>
> I deleted .Xauthority and tried again but it didn't
> help (although a new .Xauthority file was created). I
> created a new user account and tried from that but got
> the same error. I tried chmod 0777 /var/log/xorg.0.log
> and /var/log/xorg.0.log.old, which are now
> "-rwxrwxrwx" but this doesn't help either.

chown root `which Xorg`
chmod 4711 `which Xorg`

- ajax

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