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From: attwool@exocet.enet.dec.com (Justyn K Attwool)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Unable to start X Server - unless root user
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.131041.10327@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 13:10:41 GMT
Sender: news@hollie.rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Machine: RS6000 

 Is it normal for ONLY the root user to be able to start up 'xinit' ?, I
hope its not,
 I've added users and choosen their startup environment using SMIT, but
if i login to
 the newly created account I get an error message which reads...
  'Unable to start X server'

 The only way i can correct this is then going into superuser mode then
issuing the
 xinit program.

 The protection on the files 'xinit' and 'X' look ok... are there any
other files I should 
 check ?

 I've been having this problem ever since I've got this machine.. two
weeks ago... I'm 
 starting to think we have a general installation problem, ... the hire
company did the
 installation. 

 Since other problems include:

 InfoManager core dumping/hanging, with memory allocation failures
 infoManager pages containing binary characters..
 man ls  - this command coredumps...

 Justyn

 Good points are..
  That I've got AIX NCS RPC software to talk with DEC's UCX and Ultrix
NCS RPC software.