Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:19:05 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@sberbank.sibnet.ru Subject: Re: XFree86-4.3.0,1 +wrapper-1.0_2 Message-ID: <20030319221607.J29598@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <1048089677.1021.2.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> References: <b59ppl$2len$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E78740D.6070703@myrealbox.com> <1048089677.1021.2.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu>
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wrapper is needed to run script startx by ordinary user, not root... Seems
like gdm works well for me without wrapper.
Shall we need to make XFree86-4.3.0,1 an option to install without wrapper
package?
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru
mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
>Xfree requires wrapper but seems to break GDM for user logins. Is this
>normal, and can I force un-install wrapper without breaking anything?
>
>Anthony
>
>XFreeOn 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.
>>
>>
>>
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