2003-May-08

The setuid /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 was owned by wrong user. (The owner of the machine accidently changed ownership of most or all files under /usr.) The errors before (when running startx):

Fatal server error:
Cannot move old logfile "/var/log/XFree86.0.log.old"
...
giving up.
xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.