From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 14:43:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FEC916A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C26643FE9 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.11]) by smtp.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:35:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3F70BE5F.5070300@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:42:55 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Enoch Chan References: <20030923203711.76855.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030923203711.76855.qmail@web80604.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Sep 2003 21:35:48.0905 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7986990:01C3821A] cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't start X... Please help!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:43:45 -0000 Enoch Chan wrote: > Can you explain to me what's happening and how to solve it? No...and Johnny Carson had cue cards when he played "Karnak," also... :P (/rimshot...) > Also, I am a newbie... just giving me the shell script without > explanation can't help me at all :P Hey, now, I didn't give you a shell script, I showed you the output of the 'ls' command on my desktop box. If you need to know how to use 'ls', and 'grep', read the following paragraph; otherwise, skip down to where it says "So, do...." And, take a look at the 'man' command as well.... In the following example, you see a shell prompt, some commands, and their output. The shell prompt ends at the first character of the second line, a 'hash' or "#" sign. In the shell, 'll' is aliased to "ls -l" as is the standard on the C shell. We told the shell to "ls -l" the contents of the /dev directory, and it did. The pipe "|" sends the output of the 'ls' command to 'grep', which looked for "io" in case one and "kmem" in case two. Did you check permissions on /dev/io and /dev/kmem? IIRC (you omitted your original post!) your problem was a warning about 'kmem' and a fatal error involving 'io' ... > Check that your permissions are as follows: > > [/] [8:49] > #ll /dev | grep io > crw------- 1 root wheel 2, 14 Sep 21 23:00 io > [/] [8:49] > #ll /dev | grep kmem > crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 1 Sep 21 23:00 kmem > crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 0 Sep 21 23:00 mem > So, do a "ll /dev | grep io" and a "ll /dev | grep kmem" and check that your permissions are the same as those shown. If they are, then my idea wasn't much help after all, and you should send your request back to the *list*, including the statement "I checked the permissions on /dev/io and /dev/kmem, and they seem normal," and perhaps even "I read the handbook, and didn't find this issue addressed" --- assuming, of course, that you take time to do so, and I think that could only be wise. > Thanks!!! > Have a nice day!!! :D > > Enoch > That remains to be seen, which is sad, considering that it's almost 5 p.m. here ;). FWIW, I do hope you get your problem solved, and if that makes your day nicer, so much the better. :-) KDK