From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 21:27:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D687237B599 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.41]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:20:04 -0700 Message-ID: <38F68BC9.FB8B1BAF@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:08:57 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Sanchez Cc: "'jms235@sisna.com'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: silly error References: <4BA40B5A514ED311B9A40008C7DFB0A101297824@exchange2.snap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Sanchez wrote: > > yes, the user is invited to that group > > ::::::: NBCi ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > ::: > ::: francisco j sanchez > ::: Software Operations Engineer > ::: v://415.375.5380 e://franciscos@nbci.com > ::: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Slivko [mailto:jms235@sisna.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:01 PM > To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'; > Francisco Sanchez > Subject: Re: silly error > > Did you try adding that user into the root/wheel group? > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Francisco Sanchez > Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:51:57 -0700 > > >× hello, > >× i am still pretty new to the FreeBSD world, and the X world, > >× and, yes, also the WindowMaker world. if my question sounds > >× a little simplistic, please bear with me. anyway, i recently > >× installed FreeBSD 4.0, with XFree86-4.0, > >× XFree86-aoutlibs-3.3.3, and windowmaker-0.61.1. Whenever i > >× try to startx, it fails with the following error message: > >× > >× Fatal server error: > >× xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions > >× You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. > >× We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! In the installation notes for XFree86 3.3.6 there were the following instructions. 10. Installing the XFree86 3.3.6 Release The XFree86 3.3.6 binaries are distributed as a full release. NOTE: the X servers are no longer installed setuid root. If you are starting your X servers with startx/xinit, or something similar, you will need a copy of the setuid Xwrapper, and an updated xinit. These can be found in Xbin.tgz. It sounds like you have a mix of the old and the new and don't have Xwrapper start your server. I don't see an Xwrapper in 4.0 but I may have missed something. Kent > >× > >× now, this is obviosly some sort of permissions error, as i > >× can startx with sudo and as root, but not as any other user > >× on my box. i've tried using Xwrapper, and xdm, but to no > >× avail. what am i doing wrong? thanx in advance for your help. > >× > >× also, a side note, what is the difference between > >× windowmaker-0.61.1 and windowmaker-i18n-0.61.1? what are the > >× i18n extensions? thanx again. > >× -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message