Urgent: fresh install 11.1 Xauth problem

Hello, this is very urgent. I have to get the system working within the following 2 hours our I am really punished.
Everything worked fine for several updates to the final system, now suddenly when trying to login dropping out at runlevel 5 and login. When doing login the system starts as root with startx but not as user. This is for me a permission problem. Only: I did not change the permissions and I did not log into as a root-X system. I just did set the permissions in yast to secure. Nothing else.
The system complains:

creating new autority file /home/user/...

(the three files .serverauth
.xorgconf
Actually he tries to create xauthority twice. He then aborts stating:

cannot move old log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old

This is really very urgent to me. If you have any suggestion how to repair this without going through a new install, please inform me ASAP, thank you.

System is 11.1 KDE3.5 and KDM4 (as of original settings).

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Does it work if you change back from Secure permissions? What does the
secure configuration change with regard to /var/log? Perhaps nothing.
This may be interesting (from my 11.3 laptop):

ab@mybox0:~/Desktop> grep Xorg /etc/permissions*
/etc/permissions.easy:/usr/bin/Xorg root:root 4711
/etc/permissions.paranoid:/usr/bin/Xorg root:root 0711
/etc/permissions.secure:/usr/bin/Xorg root:root 0711

Notice that with the ‘easy’ setting Xorg has the SUID bit set. Change the
…secure file to also be 4711 instead of 0711 on this line for long-term
and to test run the following command:

sudo chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg

If that allows you to get into X as a non-root user then the change to the
file mentioned above should keep that persistent for you.

Good luck.

On 10/10/2010 04:06 AM, stakanov wrote:
>
> Hello, this is very urgent. I have to get the system working within
> the following 2 hours our I am really punished.
> Everything worked fine for several updates to the final system, now
> suddenly when trying to login dropping out at runlevel 5 and login. When
> doing login the system starts as root with startx but not as user. This
> is for me a permission problem. Only: I did not change the permissions
> and I did not log into as a root-X system. I just did set the
> permissions in yast to secure. Nothing else.
> The system complains:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> creating new autority file /home/user/…
> --------------------
>
> (the three files .serverauth
> .xorgconf
> Actually he tries to create xauthority twice. He then aborts stating:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> cannot move old log file (/var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> --------------------
>
> This is really very urgent to me. If you have any suggestion how to
> repair this without going through a new install, please inform me ASAP,
> thank you.
>
> System is 11.1 KDE3.5 and KDM4 (as of original settings).
>
>
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