Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:19:57 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2? Message-ID: <20020725041956.GA75402@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org> References: <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org>
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:13:39AM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: > 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? Adding xwrapper as a dependency is a good idea. It is in fact such a good idea that it has already been done, about a month ago. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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