Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:39:13 +0900 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: modelt20@canada.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Users unable to select their own window manager in X. Message-ID: <71FF7C93-326E-40DE-888C-202B84765D54@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050829123519.12498.fh052.wm@smtp.sc0.cp.net> References: <20050829123519.12498.fh052.wm@smtp.sc0.cp.net>
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On Aug 29, 2005, at 9:35 PM, modelt20@canada.com wrote: > Hello All: > > Last week, I did a CVSup on all ports, and then did a > portupgrade over the weekend. The portupgrade completed > successfully, without significant errors. > > Now, normal users are no longer able to set their own > window manager (e.g. fvwm2) in X, but logging in as > root, I can. The user's .xinitrc file has not changed > recently, but when the user launches X, all they get is > the grey hatched background with a black X for the > mouse pointer. No windows (clock, mail, task panel, > etc) appear. If I rename the user's .xinitrc file and > then start X, the standard 'xterm' window manager > loads. As root, the fvwm2 window manager loads fine. It > appears the portupgrade changed a permissions setting > somewhere, but beings this ran over the weekend, I > don't know what setting got changed. > > Also, X is now reporting that it cannot load 'speedo', > that the file doesn't exist. This too began after the > portupgrade. When I look for the file in the 'fonts' > folder, it is indeed missing. > > Does anyone know what went wrong, and what I need to > change to get things back? Some fonts are indeed missing even though they are listed in the xorg.conf file. I don't know why though as I am not an X expert. So feel free to delete any and all unfound references. This shouldn't cause any issues with WMs not loading though I would think.. -Garrett
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