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To: Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: Xfree or FreeBSD setting problem?
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote:

>Recently I installed Xfree and then KDE. It worked for a few days and
>then yesterday Xfree stopped working for any user other than root.
>
>After searching archives/FAQ I found a note on running "X -probeonly
>2>some file name". I did. The output did not have any errors.
>
>I did notice on another console that there was an error about "non
>present SYSVMSG". Recompiled my kernel with SYSVMS (FreeBSD). Now
>there is no error, but I still can not use Xfree from other users.
>
>I tried using fvwm2 instead of kde and it doesn't work either.
>Before adding SYSVMG KDEhelp was doing a core dump, but not after
>adding SYSMSG. Fvwm2 core dumps even after adding SYSVMSG.
>
>The only thing I know to have changed was that when I first installed
>Xfree the rights were not correct and there were a number of things
>which regular users did not have access to. Found a couple of scripts
>to recursively chmod to 755. I did this only on the KDE directories
>and not on Xfree.
>
>Other than running X -probeonly anything else that can be done to
>troubleshoot?
>
>How can I check if I correctly added SYSVMSG on the kernel? I also
>added SYSVSEM in case KDE was looking for that.
	
	You can do
% ipcs -a
	and if you don't have SYSVMSG compiled in the kernel, you'll get:

SVID messages facility not configured in the system

	if you do have SYSVMSG compiled in OK, you should see:

Shared Memory:
T     ID     KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP  CREATOR   CGROUP NATTCH
SEGSZ  CPID  LPID   ATIME    DTIME    CTIME

>
>What I don't understand is if root works why another user doesn't.
>

	Are there any errors when user starts X? Does the screen changes
from tty to X, but window manager doesn't start?

-- Yan


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