Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 17:28:37 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Handy <handy@physics.montana.edu> Subject: stable: xosview fails - permission denied Message-ID: <200207211728.37338.bts@babbleon.org>
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I can no longer run xosview as an ordinary user. This is with Friday's stable
image, but I haven't upgraded before this in many months so I have no idea
how recent it is.
The message I get is:
% xosview
xosview: OpenKDIfNeeded():kvm-open(): Permission denied
I can run it just fine as root.
I tried doing a ktrace/kdump, and it shows this:
29763 xosview NAMI "/dev/mem"
29763 xosview RET open -1 errno 13 Permission denied
29763 xosview CALL write(0x2,0xbfbfdd48,0x9)
29763 xosview GIO fd 2 wrote 9 bytes
"xosview: "
29763 xosview RET write 9
29763 xosview CALL write(0x2,0xbfbfdd78,0x1b)
29763 xosview GIO fd 2 wrote 27 bytes
"OpenKDIfNeeded():kvm-open()"
29763 xosview RET write 27/0x1b
So the fix (or at least the workaround) seemed obvious, but it doesn't work:
I did a "chmod 777 /dev/mem" but it still fails in the same way.
I even tried chown'ing it to my "regular" userid, but it still fails.
(Of course I put it back the way I found it after my experiments.)
Any ideas?
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