On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > At present, the machine offers only a CLI login; if I use is as > root, startx still works; but if I log in as user, startx fails. Just by the by, that sort of thing is typical if /tmp isn't writable to, or has the wrong permissions. You *could* have two problemsm /tmp plus your huge log issue. [tim@gonzales ~]$ ls -ld /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 2008-10-27 15:57 /tmp/ [tim@gonzales ~]$ ls -ldZ /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt root root system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 /tmp/ -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines