From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 23:44:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from speechpro.com (crt-gw.infopro.spb.su [195.201.254.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CCD37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 23:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from igorr by sysadm.stc with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Z5it-0005cH-00; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:45:31 +0300 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:45:31 +0300 From: Igor Roboul To: Aniruddha Bohra Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting X for non root users Message-ID: <20020208074531.GA21558@sysadm.stc> Reply-To: igorr@speechpro.com Mail-Followup-To: Igor Roboul , Aniruddha Bohra , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i 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 On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:37:26AM -0500, Aniruddha Bohra wrote: > > Hello > I have been trying to get X to work for non root users but have > failed on FreeBSD 4.4. > > In any case Xwrapper does not work even for root, but startx works(so > there is nothing wrong with the X configuration). > > Xwrapper just starts a gray screen and sits there. > > xdm/kdm both show the initial screen, take login and passwd > if login is incorrect, they say login failed > however, if correct login is provided, the server restarts. Does user's .xsession is executable? I never had any X starting problems with FreeBSD. I had never used Xwrapper, and on all my FreeBSD machines X11 just works (with some X11server related configurations of course) -- Igor Roboul, System administrator at Speech Technology Center http://www.speechpro.com http://www.speechpro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message