[PLUG] Strange X problem

[alan]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:

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> alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Robert Kopp wrote:
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>> The two distros I have used most recently are SuSE 10.0 and 10.2. These installations have been partitioned as / and /home.
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>> 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).
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>> 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:
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>> http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/57
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>> No, probably Debian. But I'm curious as to why the problem I mentioned above is SuSE-specific, seemingly.
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> What video card are you using?
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> 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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