Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:36:56 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <skywizard@time.net.my> To: treznor@sunflower.com, Tyler McGeorge <millioncheese@yahoo.com>, Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to startx Message-ID: <01020109425700.22409@FreeBSD.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20010201004156.24530.qmail@web10603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010201004156.24530.qmail@web10603.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, Tyler McGeorge wrote:
> I'm just guessing on this one, never had the problem
> myself, seeing how no working serial port=no serial
> mouse and lack of PS/2 port means no working mouse, so
> I don't have much experience with X. :P However, This
> sounds like a possible permissions problem. I'm not
> sure, but I think X may need to be started as root
> initially. But seeing how you said you ran it
> from /stand/sysinstall, this is probably not the case.
> I would delete all the X packages, not sure which or
> how many, but you can find out with pkg_info, which
> you might want to pipe that to grep and filter out
> anything that doesn't reference XF86 or something
> similar. After you delete those packages, add them
> again, and if possible, do it from the FTP just to
> simplify things (I have packages on CD and it's a
> hassle).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ty
> --- Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> wrote:
> > I have had the very same thing happen to me. I even
> > posted the question
> > here on this mailing list only to find that nobody
> > responded. Of course,
> > this meant to me that nobody knew the problem. I
> > even sent a bug report to
> > the XF86 folks and received no response from them as
> > well.
> >
> > *shrug*
> >
> > Let me know if you get an answer to this one as I am
> > still wondering how to
> > fix it even though I have since not used that
> > machine anymore.
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> >
> > At 07:51 AM 2/1/2001 +0800, Alan Tsang wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Hi
> > >
> > >I installed and setup the Release 4.2 but was
> > unable to startx.
> > >
> > >I followed the normal procedures, boot the
> > installation floppies and
> > >configured everything.
> > >
> > >In the installation screen, I was able to use
> > XF86Setup to configure the X,
> > >started X server test and save the configuration
> > file.
> > >
> > >However, when I boot the installed system and tried
> > to startx, I got message
> > >"xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (operation not
> > permitted).
> > >
> > >Even worse, when I tried to reconfigure X using
> > XF86Setup or inside
> > >/stand/sysinstall, the configuration program just
> > cannot start the X server
> > >anymore.
> > >
> > >I would be grateful if anyone can help on the
> > issue.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Alan Tsang
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
Something to do with kern.securevel ( sysctl kern.securelevel )
X cannot start because you set the security level too high, preventing
the X server to communicate with your hardware. Read your /etc/rc.conf
and /etc/defaults/rc.conf ("kern_securelevel_enable" variable).
Try to disable it first (put "NO"). This require a reboot.
man init.
good luck
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