Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:29:25 -0800 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fatal Server error Message-ID: <200407081329.25931.akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040708210821.GB57010@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200407081249.34867.akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org> <20040708210821.GB57010@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:08 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:49:34PM -0800, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm getting the following when I try to startx from another user besides > > root: > > > > Fatal server error: Cannot move old logfile /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old > > > > I searched the mailing lists, but aside from a couple of references, I > > didn't find any solutions. Any help would be appreciated. > > Install the x11/wrapper port if you want to be able to run startx as a > mortal user. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks for replying. I had the wrapper installed, but it wasn't working properly. A reinstall fixed everything. Once again thanks for the hint. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@northwindcom.dyndns.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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