Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:05:48 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SV (was TkDesk will not start as normal user) Message-ID: <UD%2BYOd%2BkBSIQt2hPe3MlGYzeyVSQ@4ax.com>
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Previously:
>> FreeBSD-4.1 Release, XFree86-4.0.1, TkDesk-1.2 pkg.
>>
>> TkDesk starts fine if started by root, but as user john (wheel & network)
>> no go. As root or as john su'd it creates a directory in /tmp as
>> tkdeskPID where PID is the number of the tkdesk process.
>> (/tmp is a symbolic link to /usr/tmp)
The fix is to (as root) chmod go+w /var/tmp !
The error causing the problem was not generated by tkdesk. Further back
in the error messages was:
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Cannot open "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" to write keyboard description
> Exiting
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
X started ok regardless. Fvwm would start ok if required, but Tkdesk picks
up the error with (presumably) the following code:
# Temp dir to use by this TkDesk:
set tkdesk(tmpdir) /tmp/tkdesk[pid]
set err [catch {
exec rm -rf $tkdesk(tmpdir)
exec mkdir $tkdesk(tmpdir)
} errmsg]
if {$err} {
puts stderr "TkDesk: Couldn't create temp dir $tkdesk(tmpdir)"
puts stderr "TkDesk: errmsg: $errmsg"
puts stderr "TkDesk: Exiting"
exit 1
}
The exit 1 brings down the X server.
I'm quite surprised by this behaviour. It's my fault for not clearing/
noticing the X error, but shouldn't tkdesk clear any previous errors
before the catch, or something?
John.
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