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http://forums.opensuse.org – This is 11.1 i586 on a server. The machine has been working with no manual intervention for 2 months and I have put it into runlevel 3 because thats enough for it. Now I wanted to start KDE to do some administrative work and to my surprise it failed to start. I was logged in as normal user on console F6 and typed 'startx' (as usual, this worked all the time before). The error message said that it could not move /var/log/Xorg.0.log to /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old Owners for these files are root / users. What could be wrong here? And what do you suggest to fix it? (Distributions)

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