Date: 19 Mar 2003 15:36:37 +0100 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated XFree86 Message-ID: <1048084597.653.2.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <3E78740D.6070703@myrealbox.com> References: <b59ppl$2len$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E78740D.6070703@myrealbox.com>
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Well, the .xsession is executable... adding my user to the gdm group didn't help... SUID...New to this...can you explain a little about this...? XFree86 is dependent on wrapper...it won't uninstall...I can force it...but... Anthony On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 14:43, walt wrote: > CARTER Anthony wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I updated XFree86 this morning after a cvsup using portupgrade -r...did > > all packages for XFree86 (Server, libraries etc. etc.) > > > > I now have a problem with GDM... > > > > I can log in as root using the GDM, but if I log in as another user, it > > pops a message up about my session not lasting longer than 10 seconds > > and dumping me back to login. I get a "client 5 rejected from local > > host" in my logs, and I get a "run_session_chiled: Could not open > > ~/.xsession-errors" on the console (even though it exists)... > > I have vague recollections that your ~/.xsession should be marked > executable for xdm/gdm/kdm to work properly. Is it? I can't > recall if there is a special group added to /etc/group for the > xsession manager but if there is one your users may need to belong > to that group. Does gdm run SUID? Can't recall, but it may need to. > If 'startx' works then I assume you have 'wrapper' installed. I'm > not sure about the interaction of wrapper with gdm but you could > try de-installing it. Only takes a second to re-install it. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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