From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 23:55:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA21005 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 May 1996 23:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA21000 for ; Fri, 10 May 1996 23:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id HAA05276 ; Sat, 11 May 1996 07:53:29 +0100 (BST) To: Matthew Stein cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: xterm seems to require group wheel In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 May 1996 02:32:11 EDT." Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 07:53:28 +0100 Message-ID: <5274.831797608@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew Stein wrote in message ID : > > 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.