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sylvain77

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Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Unable to startx as a normal user

When I try to start xfce4 (startxfce4) or X (startx) as a "normal user", I get the following error:

/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 77: 5624 Aborted $xfcesm
waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

I do not have this problem if I am logged as "root".
Therefore, It is maybe due to a file permission or $PATH.

I need advice.

Last edited by sylvain77 (2007-09-29 04:01:11)

sylvain77

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Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to startx as a normal user

I am sorry, I did not see that this issue has already been discussed in the following posts:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34442

As root, I just had to do:
chown root:root /tmp && chmod 777 /tmp