After doing lots of google and various trials , I was finally able to get the reason for the above problem.
Note: The same error can occur for various reasons, so my work around might or might not work for you.
The problem was with the permissions for the /tmp folder.
The permissions for the /tmp folder should be
rwxrwxrwxt
some one had changed this to
rwx-------
So other than root no other user was able to start the Xserver session.
once I changed the permissions using :
sudo chmod a+rwxt /tmp
every thing is working fine.
I has this error on FC5 and I could not log in using graphical interface. Your suggestion saved the day. Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteGlad it helped.
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