From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 15:39:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A2437B41F for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA09480; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:09:06 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Edwin Groothuis , Denny White Subject: Re: xserver broken Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:14:44 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020113230554.K311-100000@hal.cableone.net> <20020114162353.R823@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <20020114162353.R823@k7.mavetju.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02011510144401.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 14 January 2002 15:53, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:12:59PM -0600, Denny White wrote: > > I installed the fbsd 4.5 rci-cdboot.iso > > & everything was running fine. The only > > thing that I can think I did before the > > xwindows started messing up was to install > > gimp. Now, when in xwindows as root, I > > can't access the terminal & users can't > > use xwindows at all. After hitting startx > > as user, following message displays: > > xf86OpenConsole: server must be running > > with root permissions. You should be using > > Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. > > We strongly advise against making the > > server SUID root. > > Any advise as to where & what to read & > > check on greatly appreciated. Hate to > > wipe out the install. Would much rather > > fix it & learn from it. Thanks. > > Install the x11/wrapper port or package and the problem is solved. Oh no it isn't. Been there, done that - no effect. The FAQ isn't completely specific - could you help us, perhaps by saying how to implement the Xwrapper? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message