From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 22:29:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8F616A4CE; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:29:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rooster.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A2A43D31; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:29:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [64.102.192.59] (dhcp-64-102-192-59.cisco.com [64.102.192.59]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id j06MTle20009; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:29:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41DDBBDB.6010803@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:29:47 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nuno Teixeira References: <20050106222641.GA1262@nunotex.local> In-Reply-To: <20050106222641.GA1262@nunotex.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: x11/gnome2 fails to start (permission problemi - TESTED) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:29:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 /usr/ports/UPDATING. This is a known, much-discussed issue. Joe | | Thanks, | | Nuno Teixeira - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB3bvbb2iPiv4Uz4cRAr8/AJ9SvArzW7z/TqcvqFH3NEv1ntJp1wCfT1bP 09m12IlA8yObXY+m59RXgD0= =Btbh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----