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Date:      Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:06:53 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Eckart Hofmann <bofh@muenster.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/mem and /dev/io permission problems with 4.2-STABLE and  XFree86-4
Message-ID:  <3A31233D.161A5F7D@urx.com>
References:  <200012081536.QAA20369@bbaer.muenster.de>

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Eckart Hofmann wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have got a 4.2-STABLE box, cvsup'ed the last time 3 hours ago the
> whole world and the ports collection. After building the world and the
> kernel, "make KERNEL=MYKERNEL installkernel" (in multiuser mode, but I
> am the one and only user at this time) fails with an "operation not
> permitted" error executing "chflags noschg /kernel" as root.
> Rebooting in single user mode, make installkernel, reboot to single user,
> make installworld, mergemaster works fine.
> After this I rebooted again (into multiuser), built the latest XFree86-4,
> but can't get it to work.

Sounds like you are trying to do forbidden tasks because of your
security level.

Kent

> xf86cfg fails because a fatal X server error occurs:
> 
> (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open "/dev/mem" (Operation not permitted)
> [...]
> Fatal server error:
> xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O
> 
> (I started xf86cfg as root)
> The manpages for io(4) and mem(4) didn't give me a hint what happened,
> the search on deja.com and freebsd-(stable|questions) was unsuccessful.
> Running xf86cfg or startx within truss also didn't show some helpful
> output.
> 
> Another problem in the same category (I think):
> I tried to copy a file with "mcopy foo a:" (as root) and got
> Can't open /dev/rfd0: Operation not permitted.
> 
> All 3 device files (/dev/io, /dev/mem, /dev/rfd0) are read-writable for
> root.
> 
> Any hints appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
>         Eckart
> 
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