You are not logged in.

#1 2008-02-03 12:49:04

HyperBaton
Member
From: Belgium
Registered: 2008-01-18
Posts: 207

Cannot start X11 as non-root user

Yes I know, there are about a billion threads about this issue, but I'm afraid none of them have helped me so far.

So, basically as root I can startx just fine. But when I try to startx as my user "hb", I see the Nvidia logo and it jumps back to the console. It doesn't display any real errors, apart from some font and keyboard stuff, which isn't fatal to starting the X server as far as I know. The Xorg.0.log doesn't display any errors at all. So I really don't have a clue what the problem is.

I've installed Arch Linux just a week ago on this laptop and I didn't have any problems whatsoever, but I've tried to reinstall 3 times today and X11 keeps refusing to work...

I've used nvidia-xconfig to configure xorg.conf and I followed the wiki instructions (which worked for me the last time). But considering X11 works for root, the config file should be okay, right?

Last edited by HyperBaton (2008-02-03 12:50:11)

Offline

#2 2008-02-03 13:41:28

burk
Member
From: Norway
Registered: 2007-06-17
Posts: 46

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

Maybe the error lies in the .xinitrc of the hb user?

Offline

#3 2008-02-03 13:44:51

HyperBaton
Member
From: Belgium
Registered: 2008-01-18
Posts: 207

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

I don't have a window manager installed yet. Seemed rather pointless when X wasn't working yet. The .xinitrc is there, but doesn't exec anything. But in the previous install I installed xfce4 and had .xinitrc do "exec xfce4-session", and the result was the same as now: X starts then jumps back to console.

Offline

#4 2008-02-03 16:14:28

finferflu
Forum Fellow
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: 2007-06-21
Posts: 1,899
Website

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

I've had some sort of similar issue some months ago, I'm not sure this can help you:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35143

I actually had some errors, unlike you, but it's worth a try...


Have you Syued today?
Free music for free people! | Earthlings

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- A. de Saint-Exupery

Offline

#5 2008-02-03 22:43:41

HyperBaton
Member
From: Belgium
Registered: 2008-01-18
Posts: 207

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

Well, after yet another reinstall I was able to start the twm window manager as non-root user. To startxfce4 I had to chmod 1777 /tmp. Is this of any security risk? Changing it to 1777?

Offline

#6 2008-02-03 22:57:05

peart
Member
From: Kanuckistan
Registered: 2003-07-28
Posts: 510

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

1777 is what it should have been in the first place!

Offline

#7 2008-02-03 23:54:22

HyperBaton
Member
From: Belgium
Registered: 2008-01-18
Posts: 207

Re: Cannot start X11 as non-root user

Ah okay. Well I'm a happy camper now smile

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB