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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:43:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = Broken Sawfish]
Message-ID:  <20020727094350.11665.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <1027762347.3d4268abead03@netmail.pipex.net>

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--- sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Joe,
>    I recompiled Sawfish, but now startx only works
> for root.
> 
> For each user, there already exists the .xinitrc
> file 
> with: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session being the only
> line in there.
> 
> The error I get is:
> Fatal Server Error:
> Cannnot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> 
> Please help me with this.
> 
> Stacey
> 
> 
Check the ownership of /var/log/Free86.0.log
ls /var/log/XFree86.0.log
it should be something like rwx_w__w_
do chmod a+w /var/log//XFree86.0.log
I hope.

Robert Backhaus

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