Help to start X

[Michael Hirsch]

When this happened to me I could work around it by logging in to the
console and running "sudo chmod 666 /dev/null" then restarting X.  But
I'd have to do this after each reboot.

The proper solution was that some init script was running twice--one
from /etc/rcS.d and once in /etc/rc2.d.  The second time it ran it
reset the permissions on /dev/null.  The solution was to delete the
script from rc2.d.

I'm not positive, but I think it was the udev script which should be
linked to /etc/rcS.d/S20udev.  udev should run in any other of the
rcX.d directories.

Michael

On 5/25/07, Eduard Bonet <bonedu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/5/24, Terence Simpson <stdin at stdin.me.uk>:
> > Earl Violet wrote:
> > > --- Eduard Bonet <bonedu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> Can anyone give me a hint on what to do, please?
> > >>
> > >  Maybe try
> > >
> > > sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> > >
> > > as a start.  This should reset X
> > >
> > > Earl
> > >
> > >
> > That should help, but the error that drew my attention is:
> > /usr/bin/startx: line 169: /dev/null: Permission denied
> >
> > It seems that the file /dev/null isn't writeable to your use, it needs
> > to be.
>
> Thanks for your help. After trying sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
> and other options with no success i decided to reinstall the system again.
> Now i have reminded  what happened: electricity supply was stopped while the
> computer was doing a 500 mb update.
>
>
>
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