From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 24 21:20:12 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 E580F37B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maila.telia.com (maila.telia.com [194.22.194.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF31443E86 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P4K4bN004445 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:20:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h187n3fls20o913.telia.com [213.67.148.187]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA01829 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:20:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 76431 invoked by uid 1001); 25 Jul 2002 04:19:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:19:57 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Andrew Boothman Cc: "Maxim M. Kazachek" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2? Message-ID: <20020725041956.GA75402@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Boothman , "Maxim M. Kazachek" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020725103641.U18384-100000@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D3F7AF3.8030202@cream.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message