I've been using PCLinuxOS. All was OK until the Hard Drive had a bad block. After some fsck
repair, from the shell, I tried to startx
:
xauth: file /home/joe/.serverauth.2052 does not exist.
authentication failed - cannot start X server.
I noticed root has a .serverauth
cookie and can startx
it ok, but I don't know how to fix X
access for the user.
The 80gb HD is failing so I've decided to stop try to login, only accessing it from a live cd. Case closed.
ls -ld /home/joe
?/usr/bin/Xwrapper
lost its setuid permission. It should berwsr-xr-x
. If that's not it, please post any error messages you see on the console or in/home/joe/.xsession-errors
. It would also be interesting if you could create a brand new user and see whether X starts for it.