 | | | XFS dies -- solved | XFS dies -- solved 2002-08-27 - By BFD
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Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
> Try tracing the process:
>
> strace -s255 -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -droppriv -nodaemon \
> > /tmp/xfs.strace.txt 2 >&1
>
> If it dies, look at the end of that file to see if it 's SEGV 'd or
> something of that sort. If you can 't figure it out at all (and it is
> sorta complex), bzip2 the file and put it somewhere we can download it.
It turned out to be a problem with permissions.
I ran /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -droppriv -nodaemon and got error
messages about not be able to start a socket because one
already existed, and so xfs was aborting. When I ran it with
the -daemon switch it stayed up. I then ran "startx " and
found that KDE could not write to the /tmp directory, so I
set its permissions to drwxrwxrwt and since then things work
just fine.
I have no idea how the directory permissions on /tmp got
changed.
But thanx for your help.
BFD
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