Quote Originally Posted by m_yates
OK, try the following as root:
Code:
cd /tmp
chmod -R a+rwx .X11-unix
chmod 1777 .X11-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp
Thanks! That was it!

I just changed permissions as you instructed before and logged out of X with 'Ctrl-Alt-Backspace'. Then I logged in as normal user. Everything is now fine

What was exactly done? Permissions in /tmp was
drwxr-xr-x
and now they are
drwxrwxrwxt