Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 07:53:28 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matthew Stein <matt@bdd.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm seems to require group wheel Message-ID: <5274.831797608@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 May 1996 02:32:11 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.93.960511022854.11974A-100000@bdd.net>
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Matthew Stein wrote in message ID <Pine.BSI.3.93.960511022854.11974A-100000@bdd.net>: > > I just noticed another odd thing on my FreeBSD system. xterm's run fine, > when the user is in group wheel. When the user isn't in group wheel, they > seg-fault. > > Has anyone encountered this? The privs, mode, and binary are exactly as > they are on another system here where the xterms work fine. xterm depends on a lot more than that... check dependant libraries (you can see them with `ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm'), permissions on the PTY devices (though that shouldn't cause coredumps). Also check for weird stuff in users .Xdefaults files, unusual shell settings, umm, and if that's all the same, I'm stuck for ideas :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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