From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 31 10:30:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CB737B431 for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 10:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBVIUaQ98511; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:30:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:30:36 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Herk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't start gnome other than as root In-Reply-To: <3C30AC6C.1060506@cwnet.com> Message-ID: <20011231132847.U97675-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Herk wrote: > Hi, FreeBSD-Questions. > > I can't start gnome, or mozilla, other than as root. Running "startx" > as a regular user > gives an error message about needing to be SUID root to start the > server. Mozilla gives > a similar 'permissions' error message. I followed the FreeBSD Handbook > for the > installation of XF86-4.x from the ports collection and have the same > .xinitrc in my Install /usr/ports/x11/wrapper, then create a ~/.xserverrc with the following: exec Xwrapper :0 Make ~/.xserverrc executable. You should be able to use startx then. You should also have a ~/.xinitrc similar to: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session Joe > user dir as I have in root's dir. Can you be of any help in this? > > Thanks. > Herk Gibbs > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message