Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 14:30:13 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X no longer works... Message-ID: <35A059DD.D99C0753@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980704024924.2795T-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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This could be related to the recent kernel security level changes.
To check, run the following as root:
# sysctl -a | grep secur
kern.securelevel: -1
If your kernel is not running at level -1 you wont be able to start
X. (at least I couldn't).
To make sure it runs at level -1 make sure you have updated your
/etc files after your lastest world build. In particular /etc/rc
sets the security level based on the options in the latest
/etc/rc.conf which has these 2 entries recently added:
kern_securelevel_enable="NO" # kernel security level (see init(8)),
kern_securelevel="-1" # range: -1..2 ; `-1' is the most insecure
You do need to merge in the recent changes to rc.conf as the security
level will be changed if kern_securelevel_enable is anything other
than "NO".
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> Morning...
>
> I recently did an upgrade of my machine, running FreeBSD-CURRENT,
> and now can't seem to run X anymore, with an error of:
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted)
>
> My first thought was that it was KDE related, by the KEDNABIO
> message, but disabling KDE and using some other window manager brings
> up the same error message :(
>
> I've tried rebuilding XFree86 and KDE, but that hasn't appeared to
> help any...
>
> Am going to upgrade my source tree and kernel today, but has
> anyone else seen this? Did I just get a source snapshot between good
> ones?
>
> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
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