Re: [LUG] Laptop fails to load X

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 July 2004 16:49, Julian Hall wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:30, John Daragon wrote:
> > OK - this is a permissions error. Take a look at /etc/X11/X (which on
> > this system is a link to ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 and has perms of
> > 777, XFree86 itself is owned by root and has perms -rws--x--x
>
> Hi John,
>
> So would I just type chmod 777 /etc/X11/X ?

Possibly. What are the permissions now?  And does it link to a file that's 
both extant and executable ?

> BTW I get the same error whether I log in as root or as a user.  Would
> that still be a permissions problem?

Yes. (in that 13 is EACCES). Of course, error numbers are sometimes less than 
completely intuitive.

jd

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