From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 18 14:15:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 B2BCE16A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95B3A43D31 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from addymin@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO pacbell.net) (m?chinn@pacbell.net@63.202.80.164 with plain) by smtp806.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2004 21:15:02 -0000 Message-ID: <4082F012.50103@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:16:02 -0700 From: Mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <40803431.2070504@pacbell.net> <200404180932.44164.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200404180932.44164.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: KDE crashes for 1 user but not the others? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: addymin@pacbell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:15:03 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 04:59, Mike wrote: > >>Greeting: >> >>The system: FreeBSD 4.9-stable >> >>I have KDE 3.14 installed and all was working well for a number of >>weeks. Root and one other regular user account had been able to start >>and use KDE and Gnome. And both GUI environments operated normally. >> >>A few days ago KDE under root account wouldn't start (startx). Howevere >>KDE started under a regular user account works perfectly (and continues >>to do so). >> >>Furthermore, Gnome (2.4) under root starts (half-way?) up to the point >>of the banner and then hangs. >> > > > The root account resides on the root partition which is deliberately > kept lean and mean to improve the chances of recovery if anything breaks > in the system. This means that the root account can easily run out of disk > space when running greedy X software. > > Monsters such as KDE and Gnome are not suitable for running > from the root account. In my opinion it is not a good idea to run any > X-windows manager from the root account i.e. no startx or xdm logins > from root. Malcom: Hmmmm... Good point. I think that losing KDE for the root account is not such a bad idea, although this was done by accident :\ > > If you want the convenience of X from a privileged account then run > X and KDE or Gnome under a normal user with membership of the 'wheel' > group and then 'su' to root. > Ok. Currently I'm using a non-privileged account and "su'ing" when I need to perform admin work. > (A possible alternative is to setup a second privileged account with > a home directory under /home and work from this. You probably already > have such an account under the login name 'toor' but you will need to > move its home directory and give it a password.) Thanks for the tip! But I'll probably just let the root account go without KDE. If root REALLY needs a GUI (which it doesn't) then I could fire up fvwm or enlightenment. Thanks for the pointer Malcolm. Michael > > Malcolm > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >