From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 29 7:48:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1D737B43F for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 07:48:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 09BDFA8DD; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:47:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:47:39 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Michael Turner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: starting X Message-ID: <20010429094739.A6595@cec.wustl.edu> References: <01042901451900.70634@mike.inethouston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01042901451900.70634@mike.inethouston.net>; from mike@inethouston.net on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:45:19AM -0500, Michael Turner wrote: > Hi all, I am having a problem i have X windows installed and Kde2. > The problem is that i can start kde fine with being root. But i can not > start it being a regular user some odd reason. Any suggestions? > > heres what happens when i start it being a user-- > > Fatal Server error: Can not open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > gving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error Yes. If you installed the port or package yourself, you missed the warning message it gave you. Go to /usr/ports/x11/wrapper and do a `make install clean` to install xwrapper. If you don't want to that, set the setuid bit on the XFree86 executable. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message