From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 14:24:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44893151A7 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 14:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA08140; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:28:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 17:28:30 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "eric@etcomp.com" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: raising the kernel security level= Message-ID: <20000123172830.A7960@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <388B4126.5E129AEE@etcomp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <388B4126.5E129AEE@etcomp.com>; from eric@etcomp.com on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:57:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:57:58PM -0500, eric@etcomp.com wrote: > hi; > i recently raised the kernel security level to +3, and i had a problem > starting X., it said something like cannot open console, KDENABIO, > something like that., i'll have to raise it again to get the exact > message; but i was wondering is this a known issue? right now., i have > it back down to the default, (-1). well thank you. Yes, this is a well known issue. Search the mail archives for details on how to get around it. IIRC, you just need to start X before raising the security level. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message