On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:47:53PM -0800, Colin Wood wrote:
> sounds like you have a stale .X11-unix directory (not sure how that would
> happen, but you never know...)  try:
> 
> /bin/rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
> 
> and see if that works (may need to do it as root).  then try startx
> again.

I have vague memories of having troubles like this crop up when I just
ran X straight out as root to make sure it worked. Problem was my
umask was 077 or some such so that the directory created in /tmp
couldn't later be accessed by users.

Or something like that. I did say they were vague memories.

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net