On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi wrote: > Hi, > > I've had this same problem before and I hacked around it by setting the > Xserver setuid root. > > What does "ls -al /dev/console" say? > > Venkatesh > Thank you for your mail. I was in despair :-((( This is the output of 'ls -la /dev/console' crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 Jan 7 09:20 /dev/console I tried to change permission to 666 but without success. X doesn't start with the same message. ARGHHH!!! -------------------------------- /\\\\\\ Enrico Morelli /\||||||| ---- /__ __ ::; CE.R.M. | O O _ CEntro Risonanze Magnetiche / | | --- |_/ _| Tel : +39 055 4209269 |_/ | Fax : +39 055 4209253 | / e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/ http://beta.cerm.unifi.it/~morelli \_ / ------------------------------------------- Centro di Risonanze Magnetiche Polo Scientifico - Universita' di Firenze Via Luigi Sacconi, 6 5009 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) -------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null