Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:30:55 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Nuno Teixeira <nu@nunotex.freeshell.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: x11/gnome2 fails to start (permission problemi - TESTED) Message-ID: <20050106223054.GA41611@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20050106222641.GA1262@nunotex.local> References: <20050106222641.GA1262@nunotex.local>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:26:41PM +0000, Nuno Teixeira wrote: > > [5-STABLE] > > Hello to all, > > I use icewm as default wm. Today I compiled gnome2 to give it a try and > I received the error below: > > ===== > > _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created. > _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 2 > _IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local > > ** (gnome-session:972): WARNING **: Cannot establish any listening sockets > > waiting for X server to shut down > > ===== > > My first thought is a permission problem same as firefox a few weeks > ago, so I login as root, startx gnome2 and exit. Now, gnome2 starts ok > with my user. > > Can anyone checked this out? > > If you got gnome2 working ok as a regular user, please try the following > setup: > > (as root; console mode): > # rm -r /tmp/.X11-unix/ > # rm -r /tmp/.ICE-unix/ > > (as a regular user): > > $ startx (gnome2) > > I got the same error everytime I do this. Read the 20041229 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING - it probably applies to you. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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