Date: 27 Jun 2002 16:59:46 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Kirk R.Wythers" <kwythers@umn.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnome seems broken after a 4.6 upgrade Message-ID: <1025211586.346.2.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <02062715000400.01276@truffula.localdomain> References: <02062715000400.01276@truffula.localdomain>
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On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 16:00, Kirk R.Wythers wrote: > I have just cvsup'ed to 4.6 stable. However, gnome (1.4) will only start for > root. I had to add myself as a new user since I messed up with mergemaster > and blew away /etc/master.passwd. If I try xinit I get the gnome splash > screen, then nothing. I've checked .xinitrc, it still has exec gnome-session. > I even coppied all of the .gnome stuff from /root/ (which as I said starts > gnome just fine). What else shoul I look at here? If you're using XFree86 4.0, make sure you have x11/wrapper installed, and use the Xwrapper as your X server. In 4.x, the X server is not setuid, so you need a special wrapper to startx as a non-root user. Joe > > Kirk > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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