Re: Strange X problem

alan <alanclueserver.org> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr
2007, Robert Kopp wrote:

> The two distros I have used most recently are SuSE 10.0
and 10.2. These installations have been partitioned as / and
/home.
>
> I create non-root accounts on Linux, which of course is
a recommended practice. Suddenly it becomes impossible to
obtain an X session with a non-root account, but if a
different non-root account is created, it will work for
awhile before the same thing happens. It is always possible
to obtain an X session with a root login, but then you're no
more secure than you would be with Windows. As a matter of
fact, that's what I'm doing right now (logged in as root).
>
> Unless I get some insight into why this happens, I'm
going to use a different distro. Fedora comes to mind, but
it has frightening reviews:
>
> h
ttp://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/57
>
> No, probably Debian. But I'm curious as to why the
problem I mentioned above is SuSE-specific, seemingly.

What video card are you using?

I am currently using the Geforce FX5500. However, when I
experienced it on SuSE 10.0, I was using the Radeon 9250.
(Perhaps I should check the error messages when X fails to
launch as a non-root user; it refers to xorg.conf. This
never happens as root.)

Debian 4.0 was released today.


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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:

>
>
> alan <alanclueserver.org> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr
2007, Robert Kopp wrote:
>
>> The two distros I have used most recently are SuSE
10.0 and 10.2. These installations have been partitioned as
/ and /home.
>>
>> I create non-root accounts on Linux, which of
course is a recommended practice. Suddenly it becomes
impossible to obtain an X session with a non-root account,
but if a different non-root account is created, it will work
for awhile before the same thing happens. It is always
possible to obtain an X session with a root login, but then
you're no more secure than you would be with Windows. As a
matter of fact, that's what I'm doing right now (logged in
as root).
>>
>> Unless I get some insight into why this happens,
I'm going to use a different distro. Fedora comes to mind,
but it has frightening reviews:
>>
>> h
ttp://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/57
>>
>> No, probably Debian. But I'm curious as to why the
problem I mentioned above is SuSE-specific, seemingly.
>
> What video card are you using?
>
> I am currently using the Geforce FX5500. However, when
I experienced it on SuSE 10.0, I was using the Radeon 9250.
(Perhaps I should check the error messages when X fails to
launch as a non-root user; it refers to xorg.conf. This
never happens as root.)

There is a log file for X in /var/log/.  Take a look and see
what is 
erroring out.

I use the commercial NVIDIA driver.  It sounds like a device
permissions 
problem though.

Are you using AppArmor?

> Debian 4.0 was released today.

I am not a big Debian fan, so I doubt I will use it.

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