On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Christopher Wong wrote: > Hi. I asked this question before but got no responses. Red Hat web > support says that this is beyond their standard installation support > (they did give a suggestion or two). Any semi-informed guesses are > welcome. Thanks. > > Problem: > > I have a couple of diskless workstations set up that use an NFS server > for their root filesystems. I recently upgraded to Red Hat 7.1 from > 7.0. On these PCs, I find that I can no longer start X as a non-root > user. The X server (XFree86_SVGA, since I use an onboard SIS > 6326 chipset) would start and just sit there. X sort of starts up and > sits there with the grey pattern and mouse "X" cursor (which moves), > but no window manager would start. On the console screen where I > launched startx, it would (after the usual startup messages) > periodically print dots for a while before giving up with: > > .. > .. > .. > giving up. > xinit: Permission denied (errno 13): unable to connect to X server > waiting for X server to shut down. > xinit: Server error. > > X works fine as root, or on a conventional PC that does not NFS-mount > its root filesystem. Previously in Red Hat 7.0, I worked around this > problem (or something similar) by adding the line: > > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so > > to /etc/pam.d/xserver. This little hack no longer works in 7.1, > however. > > I have also verified that /etc/security/console.apps/xserver exists, as > Red Hat support suggested. > Check the permissions on /tmp of the NFS mounted file system.
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