Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:35:55 +0100 From: "Rogier Steehouder" <r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl> To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 won't start: KDENABIO failed Message-ID: <3A2F21BB.30649.C19FC@localhost>
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On 6 Dec 2000, at 11:44, FreeBSD Questions wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A search revealed a thread on this about a week ago, but no definite answer
> was given. Has anyone found a solution yet?
>
> After installing FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, including the XFree86 distribution, I
> tried configuring it with XF86Setup. It failed to start (some vague message
> appears). Trying to start X manually reveals (as root as well as user):
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)
>
> My video card is a ASUS V3800, but X doesn't know that yet (at least I
> haven't told him).
>
> Any other information is available on request.
>
> with kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
>
I recieved some referrals to the XFree86 site, but as it turns out, the
problem wasn't X.
A thread on the TNT2 chipset revealed the answer.
While installing I got the question to select a "security profile" (low,
medium, secure) and I thought "I don't need those servers yet, so I'll choose
maximum security." Unfortunately, the consequence is that at startup the
kern.securelevel is raised to 2. At levels over 0 the X server won't start.
After removing the corresponding lines in rc.conf, everything worked fine.
Maybe some warning about this in the installation program is in order. Most
newbies would not expect a network security profile to block the running of
X.
With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
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