Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 10:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Francisco Reyes <reyesf@newsguy.com> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Xfree or FreeBSD setting problem? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809051023390.9253-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199809051626.JAA04122@newsguy.com>
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On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: >Recently I installed Xfree and then KDE. It worked for a few days and >then yesterday Xfree stopped working for any user other than root. > >After searching archives/FAQ I found a note on running "X -probeonly >2>some file name". I did. The output did not have any errors. > >I did notice on another console that there was an error about "non >present SYSVMSG". Recompiled my kernel with SYSVMS (FreeBSD). Now >there is no error, but I still can not use Xfree from other users. > >I tried using fvwm2 instead of kde and it doesn't work either. >Before adding SYSVMG KDEhelp was doing a core dump, but not after >adding SYSMSG. Fvwm2 core dumps even after adding SYSVMSG. > >The only thing I know to have changed was that when I first installed >Xfree the rights were not correct and there were a number of things >which regular users did not have access to. Found a couple of scripts >to recursively chmod to 755. I did this only on the KDE directories >and not on Xfree. > >Other than running X -probeonly anything else that can be done to >troubleshoot? > >How can I check if I correctly added SYSVMSG on the kernel? I also >added SYSVSEM in case KDE was looking for that. You can do % ipcs -a and if you don't have SYSVMSG compiled in the kernel, you'll get: SVID messages facility not configured in the system if you do have SYSVMSG compiled in OK, you should see: Shared Memory: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME > >What I don't understand is if root works why another user doesn't. > Are there any errors when user starts X? Does the screen changes from tty to X, but window manager doesn't start? -- Yan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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