Unable to start X Server - unless root user

Justyn K Attwool attwool at exocet.enet.dec.com
Fri Mar 22 23:10:41 AEST 1991


Machine: RS6000 

 Is it normal for ONLY the root user to be able to start up 'xinit' ?, I
hope its not,
 I've added users and choosen their startup environment using SMIT, but
if i login to
 the newly created account I get an error message which reads...
  'Unable to start X server'

 The only way i can correct this is then going into superuser mode then
issuing the
 xinit program.

 The protection on the files 'xinit' and 'X' look ok... are there any
other files I should 
 check ?

 I've been having this problem ever since I've got this machine.. two
weeks ago... I'm 
 starting to think we have a general installation problem, ... the hire
company did the
 installation. 

 Since other problems include:

 InfoManager core dumping/hanging, with memory allocation failures
 infoManager pages containing binary characters..
 man ls  - this command coredumps...

 Justyn

 Good points are..
  That I've got AIX NCS RPC software to talk with DEC's UCX and Ultrix
NCS RPC software.



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