From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 21: 9:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC3C37B400 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 456502B69B; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 06:09:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 30589FE; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:09:34 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:09:34 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: herk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reg user cannot run X server Message-ID: <20020117160934.X823@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , herk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3C464C45.1080106@cwnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C464C45.1080106@cwnet.com>; from herk@cwnet.com on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:00:05PM -0800 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 Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 08:00:05PM -0800, herk wrote: > Hi, *questions. > > As a 'regular user' on FreeBSD4.4/i386, I can't run X, emacs, mozilla, > etc. I installed > XFree86-4.1 after the base installation. I've tried the xwrapper, and > it doesn't help. > Below is the screen output for several commands run by me as a regular > user. Perhaps > someone might recognize something. > > TRYING TO START X: > bash$ startx > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" I assume you have everything configured correctly, so here are my questions: How do Xwrapper, X and XFree86 look like? I have them like this: -r-sr-sr-x 1 root wheel 4844 Jan 1 12:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Jan 9 18:48 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1773953 Jan 9 18:48 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message