Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:36:09 -0800 From: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: neuhauser@mobil.cz, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: looking for XFree86 4.2 Message-ID: <20020207193609.27787b12.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020207165354.49D5D5D13@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020207064041.292412c9.chip@wiegand.org> <20020207165354.49D5D5D13@ptavv.es.net>
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On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:53:54 -0800 "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > >now that it is installed, it is only useable by root. I haven't > > > >got that straightened out yet. > > > > > > # cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper/ > > > # make install > > > # exit > > > > startx > > > > Done that, still startx will only complain. running Xwrapper itself results in only a grey screen with a curser. > > Did you install wrapper after the installation of 4.2? Yes > If not: cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper > make deinstall Did make deinstall. > make reinstall When I did make reinstall I get this error: wrapper1.0_1 forbidden: this port is for XFree86-4 So then I did this - chip# XFree86 -version XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System > Also, can you post the error you got? The text of the error should be > in /var/log/XFree86.0.log. -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 1015 Feb 5 17:35 XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1015 Feb 7 16:37 XFree86.0.old Tonite, Feb 7, I copied the log to old, the restarted X. As you can see in the above, the log was not updated even though I changed the permissions to 777 just to see if that was causing it to not write when I was trying to start X on my user account. Here is the error I get when trying to run startx on my user account - fatal server error: 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! X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or Server shutdown). When I run XWrapper I get a gray screen and mouse cursor only, as user and as root. startx (and startxfce) works fine only when logged on as root. I really don't want to use xdm. This is my home personal computer and don't need a graphical login, I rarely shut it off or reboot it intentionally. -- Chip www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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