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From: chuck@diasonx.UUCP (Chuck Deason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: can't bring up OW as user, can as root.
Message-ID: <3809@diasonx.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 94 21:10:30 GMT
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In article <31u61f$4s9@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> knight@onramp.arc.nasa.gov (Terri Knight) writes:
>
>I have installed OpenWindows 3 on a Sun IPC running 4.1.3.
>I can bring openwindows up as root but not as a joe user. The
>error received is:
>
>Couldn't get base SunWindow
>/usr/openwin/bin/xinit No such file or directory
>(errno 2): unable to connect to X server.
>
>It must be a permissions problem somewhere but I don't know where.
>OPENWINHOME is set properly
>LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set properly
>
>Background: I "upgraded" this system by restoring from dump of a 4.1.3
>system of a Sun  SLC (which does not use Openwindows) and then modifying
>network files etc. I tarred the Openwindows over from another Sun running 
>4.1.3.
>
>Something else I see that I've never noticed before is this:
>
># dmesg
>cgthree0 at SBus slot 2 0x0 pri 7
>bwtwo0 at SBus slot 3 0x0 pri 7
>
>These is only one color monitor attached to this system.
>
>any help would be very appreciated.
>
>thanks.
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________________
>
>  Terri Knight                                            (415) 604-1062 
>  Sterling Federal Systems at                 knight@george.arc.nasa.gov 
>  NASA Ames Research Center
>  Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
>______________________________________________________________________________

Check the permissions for /tmp.  If /tmp is only writable by root, you can run
into a similiar problem.  The "restore" may have clobbered the permissions on 
/tmp.

Chuck Deason
chuck@diasonx.com