From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 21:10:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6D137B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B3C43E7B for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:10:48 +0100 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.80.97]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:10:48 +0100 Message-ID: <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 05:13:39 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maxim M. Kazachek" Cc: Andrew Boothman , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2? References: <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: >On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: > >>Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal >>user it died telling me that : >>-- start paste -- >>(WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) >> linear framebuffer access unavailable >> >>Fatal server error: >>xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root >>-- end paste -- >> >> >> >Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package > You are, of course, completely right. Thanks also to David Wolfskill for pointing this out. When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message