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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:37:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
To: hymette@wanadoo.fr
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: setuid XFree ?
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 hymette@wanadoo.fr wrote:

>   hi,
>
> I migrated recently to stable. Now trying to launch XFree with startx on

From what?

> a non root account results in an error message recommending to
setuid
> server root, but how? Is there another way of obtaining access (except
> xdm) - Xwrapper-4 just bring me to the root X window (with the cross)?

Try removing/reinstalling wrapper, although if X starts at all that
probably isn't the issue. What's in ~/.xinitrc?


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