Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 17:48:31 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groff and X11 broken (before gcc3.2) Message-ID: <al089f$2hak$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <akvltr$1lu$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <1030983769.499.15.camel@anholt.dyndns.org>
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Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > > $ startx > > [...] > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Of course those xinit errors are useless; I should have looked at XFree86.0.log. > You need to either reinstall Xwrapper port, or setuid root your XFree86 > and accept the possible security holes. *Smacks forehead* I know that. I really do. I guess I wasn't quite awake yet this morning. > I wish we could accept having some sort of suid Xwrapper installed with > XFree86-4-Server, but that would probably be shot down for security > concerns by those who don't use startx. I only use startx because xdm is chronically broken on alpha (at least the way I use it). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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