replaced HD, now only root can use X

[Steven Karel <karel brandeis edu>]

First, thanks to the list for all the helpful suggestions I've gleaned while 
lurking the last month or so -- it's helped me get my new computer up and running smoothly (til now)...

My hard drive with the /home partition died yesterday and has been replaced. Before it died completely I tarred it to a file on the other drive; now I've restored /home on the new drive. Most things work, although apparently the approach I took didn't seem to restore all the permissions as I recall them (well, I did this too fast without reading all the man pages). 

Now most everything works again, EXCEPT that root is the only user that can run X. If I run startx as a normal user (or a newly created user), the gray screen and the X come up, but the display sits in that state... I think that some configuration file must be missing, corrupted or have incorrect permissions, but I'm not sure where to start looking... from doing ps aux from a remote terminal it seems that xinit and fvwm2 have started up... the only way I can get the display back is to kill the process owned with the Xwrapper

I'll start reading man pages & docs (I promise!) but any hints as to where to start would be appreciated

steven
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