From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 10:30:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AC737B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081EE43F3F for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0NIUkfC020718 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:30:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from root@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by x74-47.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h0NIUjlb020715 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:30:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:30:45 -0600 (CST) From: Charlie ROOT To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: only root can startx Message-ID: <20030123122658.C20711-100000@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am working the kinks out of an upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-R. So far I see a problem starting X. first off xinit does not seem to work. Was that removed in 5.0? Second, oly root can startx. When I try as a regular user, I get the message: 'Fatal server error connot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log' what's going on here? thanks, Kirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message