startx failing to work after Gnome update

Toni Schmidbauer toni at stderror.at
Sun May 9 13:54:57 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Nicholas Jackson wrote:
> I've recently updated my Gnome packags to version 2.6 and since then, X 
> has failed to work when I start it as a non-root user. (It does work as 
> root)

seems like the setuid bit is missing on
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper-4. 

as user root try: 
chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper-4 

hth,
toni
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