From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 10:34:26 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 363A337B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alicia.nttmcl.com (alicia.nttmcl.com [216.69.69.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF7B43E42 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jj@alicia.nttmcl.com) Received: (from jj@localhost) by alicia.nttmcl.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g72HYJb21384; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:34:19 -0700 From: Shannon -jj Behrens To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target? Message-ID: <20020802103419.D19960@alicia.nttmcl.com> References: <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <1027536277.3d3ef59533fb0@netmail.pipex.net> <1027537417.3d3efa09e9316@netmail.pipex.net> <20020724212218.B83166@abigail.blackend.org> <1027539205.3d3f0105e49e5@netmail.pipex.net> <20020724222449.A84349@abigail.blackend.org> <1027547433.3d3f21293ff1f@netmail.pipex.net> <20020724145543.A22999@alicia.nttmcl.com> <1027582853.3d3fab8531b02@netmail.pipex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <1027582853.3d3fab8531b02@netmail.pipex.net>; from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com on Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:40:53AM +0100 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 > 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? Look in /etc/rc.conf. Do you have any variables that start with "kern_securelevel_"? In my utter ignorance, I just turn all of this off by removing all such variables (the default is not to use them). -jj -- o*s*o*pho*bi*a n. A common fear among embedded systems programmers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message