can't startx from user after upgrade

[hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com]

From: arden <arden at nildram.co.uk>

> this may sound strange but is your disc full? 
> Ive had similar probs on Linux boxes when the disc is all but full 
> 
> arden 
> 

Aloha Arden
Funny you should ask.... Here is the output of df

bsd-desktop# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on/dev/da1s2a    253678   75244  158140    32%    /
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev/dev/da1s2e    253678     208  233176     0%    /tmp/dev/da1s2d    253678   55926  177458    24%    /var/dev/da1s4f   4347996 2273842 1726316    57%    /usrbsd-desktop#

If you notice, /usr is on a different slice. The 
upgrade had failed earlier because of lack of space 
where /usr was. I then set up a larger slice and 
moved /usr there. The upgrade then completed....
so to speak.

So, isn't it curious that /home actually resides in 
/usr/home and it is the regular login accts that can't 
get to gnome. 

After receiving your email, I ran fsck on /usr and 
all was well.

Anything else I can try?

Robert


P.S. I did read the FAQ and I read it again. I checked 
the localhost stuff and the FAM stuff. All is well 
but it still takes root about 50 seconds to load 
gnome.



> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:41, hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have just successfully upgrade gnome 2.4 to gnome 2.6.
> > Well, at least that's the message on the screen after upgrade. :)
> > 
> > Before the upgrade all was working well. After the upgrade 
> > I have some problems. I cannot startx from a regular user login.
> > 
> > When trying, I get the following errors:
> > 
> > $startx
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/robert/.Xauthority
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/robert/.Xauthority
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/robert/.Xauthority
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/robert/.Xauthority
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"
> > 
> > When reporting a problem (blah, blah)
> > 
> > 
> > giving up.
> > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to 
> X server
> > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/robert/.Xauthority
> > $
> > 
> > If I startx from a root login, I get to gnome but it seems to 
> load very
> > slow. 
> > 
> > I also am not able to su from a normal login to root. 
> > 
> > $su
> > Password:
> > May 22 06:48:27 bsd-desktop su: BAD SU robert to root on /dev/ttyv0
> > su: Sorry
> > $
> > 
> > I am running FreeBSD 5.2RC. 
> > 
> > TIA
> > Robert
> > 
> > P.S. If this message was duplicated, I apologize. 
> > I received a message from my mail admin that it 
> > could not be sent. So I am sending again.
> > 
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