Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:23:08 -0400 From: "Maxime Romano" <verbophobe@hotmail.com> To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: Newly installed Message-ID: <F125OpoUyE6ZnFDenr30002671c@hotmail.com>
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>From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> >To: Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com> >CC: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>, <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS [Re: >Newly installed >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:39:35 +0100 > >Hi Maxime, > That's worked for! > >However, I'm back to my original problem: > >"Sawfish not running", when trying to configure Sawfish as ordinary user. Sawfish must be running *before* you can configure it. > >Running "sawfish" at cli returns: "You can only run one window manager" You have to kill your current window manager, and start sawfish quickly, or else the old window manager might kick in and try to take over again. Try something like "killall metacity;killall enlightenment;killall sawfish;killall twm;sawfish 1&- 2&- 3&- &" That oughta fix everthing up. -Maxime Romano > >Stacey > >Quoting Maxime Romano <verbophobe@hotmail.com>: > > > No, no! To use startx, your X server must be SUID root! Do to that, > > just > > chmod +s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 as root and you're set. > > > > (Oh, and try to set the permissions on XFree86.0.log to what they were. > > > > Something might break.) > > > > -Maxime Romano > > > > >From: <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> > > >To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> > > >CC: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>,FreeBSD User Questions > > List > > ><freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,<freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> > > >Subject: Re: Recompiled Sawfish, now startx works only for root WAS > > [Re: > > >Newly installed 4.6Stable+gnome1.4x = Broken Sawfish] > > >Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:53:27 +0100 > > > > > > > > >Hi Robert, > > > I did as you suggested, but that only gives me a new error: > > > > > >Fatal server error: > > >xf86OpenConsole: server must be suid root > > > > > >Silly question, how do I get the permissions to revert back to what > > they > > >were: > > > > > >"rw r r root wheel" > > > > > >???? > > > > > >Stacey > > > > > >Quoting robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk>: > > > > > > > > > > > --- sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Joe, > > > > > I recompiled Sawfish, but now startx only works > > > > > for root. > > > > > > > > > > For each user, there already exists the .xinitrc > > > > > file > > > > > with: /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session being the only > > > > > line in there. > > > > > > > > > > The error I get is: > > > > > Fatal Server Error: > > > > > Cannnot open log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > > > > > > > Please help me with this. > > > > > > > > > > Stacey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Check the ownership of /var/log/Free86.0.log > > > > ls /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > > > it should be something like rwx_w__w_ > > > > do chmod a+w /var/log//XFree86.0.log > > > > I hope. > > > > > > > > Robert Backhaus > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > > > > http://health.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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