On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Gerry Doris wrote: > I rarely use X windows on one of my servers. However, for a change I > typed in startx and to my surprise X started but complained about an > internal error. The pop up box said to run the following commands if I > was going to submit a bug report... > > gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/xkb > which gave the following output > > layouts = [us] > model = pc105 > overrideSettings = false > options = [] > > and > > xprop -root | grep XKB > which gave > > _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", "" > _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", "" > > After experimenting I found that any non root user gets the same error > message. The error window can be closed and X used without problems. > root can run X without any error messages so I assume there is a > permission problem somewhere. > > This is not the old xkb error. I fixed that months ago and everything was > working fine up until now??? > > Any suggestions to fix this are welcome! I hate to answer my own email but I found the problem. It was indeed a permission problem. I had to change /var/tmp permissions. I have no idea how those were messed up but everything is now working! -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
