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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:59:01 +0100
From:      hymette@wanadoo.fr
To:        Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setuid XFree ?
Message-ID:  <3DD41CA5.7080902@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <20021114123557.T4282-100000@daemon.velosystems.net>

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I upgraded from 4.4 and .xinitrc was "exec gnome-session" but great! 
reinstalling wrapper was the thing to do, now the startx runs . Many thanks!

Steve Wingate wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 hymette@wanadoo.fr wrote:
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>>  hi,
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>>I migrated recently to stable. Now trying to launch XFree with startx on
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>>From what?
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>>a non root account results in an error message recommending to
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>setuid
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>>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)?
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>Try removing/reinstalling wrapper, although if X starts at all that
>probably isn't the issue. What's in ~/.xinitrc?
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>|MCSE, CCNA		Thu Nov 14 11:59:00 PST 2002
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>|FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
>|11:59AM  up  4:27, 0 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.06, 0.02
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