Xorg crashes...

[Tom Cowell]

Does it work as root if you run it without strace or valgrind?

Can you tell I'm getting out of my depth?

Tom


2010/1/11 Ryan Daly <daly at ctc.com>:
> On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote:
>> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem.
>>
>> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root -
>> it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the
>> process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that
>> you were able to debug it).
>>
>> You could try repeating your valgrind test as root, maybe.
>
> I did try the strace as root, but I received errors there, too:
>
>
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>
> X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> xauth:  timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
>
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