From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 10 13: 1: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net [24.69.46.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A37637B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:00:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael@tenzo.com) Received: from pravda.tenzo.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pravda.tenzo.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 90FC83F25; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Michael O'Henly Reply-To: michael@tenzo.com Organization: TENZO Design To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't start X-window/KDE Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:00:39 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3AD33E12.801A8651@acuson.com> In-Reply-To: <3AD33E12.801A8651@acuson.com> Cc: David Johnson MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01041013003900.01788@pravda.tenzo.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm not sure whether this is a better solution or not. Here's what I've done. When I su to root and run xemacs, I was getting a similar error. To overcome it without modifying my security level, I added the following to root's .bashrc (replacing username with my normal user account): alias xemacs="XAUTHORITY=~[username]/.Xauthority xemacs" Now I can su to root and run xemacs using the access granted to the normal user. M. On Tuesday 10 April 2001 10:08, David Johnson wrote: > Charley Wen wrote: > > after I issued 'startx', I saw : > > Fatal server error: xf860 penConsole:KDENABIO failed (Operation not > > permitted) X Connection to :0.0 broken. > > You cannot run X11 if the security level is too high. You need to run > sysinstall and lower it. Beware of the consequences of doing so! IMHO, > this needs to be explained at the appropriate spot during installation. > > David > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message