From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 13:50:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350D737B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-2.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2513643E7B for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hymette@wanadoo.fr) Received: from mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.69) by mel-rto2.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DA24CF60166CC96; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:50:44 +0100 Received: from wanadoo.fr (80.15.88.136) by mel-rta9.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3DD3EB760001FCB2; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:50:44 +0100 Message-ID: <3DD41CA5.7080902@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:59:01 +0100 From: hymette@wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021108 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Wingate Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid XFree ? References: <20021114123557.T4282-100000@daemon.velosystems.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: > > > >> 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? > > >+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >|Steve Wingate >|MCSE, CCNA Thu Nov 14 11:59:00 PST 2002 >+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ >|FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE >|11:59AM up 4:27, 0 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.06, 0.02 >+---------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message