X Permissions problems

[Lucas Starrett <lstarret jarl cs uop edu>]

I just loaded RH 5.1 on one of my machines and am having a problem I have
never seen before.  When I try to open an X session either from XDM or
STARTX, the Xserver just stalls before a windows manager comes up.  If I
am signed in as root there is no problem.  In my .FVWM2-errors file there
is a line that reads...

exclusive open for output file failed in m4_defs: Permission denied

Initially this sounded like a locking or permissions problem, but I don't
see any files with a name similar to this.  I am using MetroX 4.3 on this
system, but I have never seen it cause this problem on any of the other
machines I have running 5.1.  Any help would be appreciated


Lucas Starrett           
306 South-West Complex       http://jarl.cs.uop.edu/~lstarret/    
University of the Pacific                                           
Stockton, CA 95211            Once I had a handle on life... 
(209) 948-1836                     ...but it broke!