From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 3:22:10 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 D126737B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:22:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E7243E81 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-67.28.73.27.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([67.28.73.27] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Xfkw-0002AD-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:22:02 -0700 From: Jud To: Shannon -jj Behrens , sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:22:25 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <1027582853.3d3fab8531b02@netmail.pipex.net> Message-Id: <07NHXTHEUTVSOLFC04C9TNS1TOJ09.3d3fd161@sparky> Subject: Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/25/2002 3:40:53 AM, wrote: > >Hi Shannon, > Thanks for the information. > >I did that and can now start gnome fine *as root only*. I do have wrapper >installed, but "startx" as non-root user fails. > >I searched the archives and saw lots of replies to posts of the "cannot use >startx as non-root user" advising to install wrapper. However, like I said, I >already have this installed. > >All attempts to re-install via pkg_delete wrapper.x errors with a warning that >XFree86-4.2.1 depends on wrapper. > >Is there a config option for wrapper or XFree86Config that I missed somewhere? > >Stacey What does the XFree86= line say in /etc/make.conf? If it's equal to version 4, you want it *un*commented; if it's equal to version 3, you want to comment it out. Then go to the wrapper port directory and make deinstall clean && make reinstall clean HTH, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message