On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:48 -0700, Bruce Hyatt wrote: > In that case, it seems odd to me that executing "chmod 777 ///" > didn't allow me to startx. If /tmp isn't "drwxrwxrwt" then it'll fail to start. Using chmod 777 doesn't set "t". That one got me, ages ago, when I copied an installation to a new drive, and forgot to set the permissions properly for /tmp. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.