From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 11:12:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BDA237B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D9543E6A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021023181211.DTOF28719.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:12:11 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9N6hnUW033451; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9N6hhZH033448; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Bryan Cassidy Cc: joe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X will not start as root - need help References: <20021023020323.82932E977@server2.fastmail.fm> <20021022102820.5fe4dcd1.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> <200210222130.54829.joe@dubium.com> <20021022114934.014e8b2d.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 22 Oct 2002 23:43:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20021022114934.014e8b2d.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryan Cassidy writes: > Have you even wondered why no one has replied to your question? Have > you heard of "su"? Maybe you should think for a second about your > question. I just dont see the point nor do I understand the point in > loging into X as root. Sorry, I just don't get it. Why mention "su"? He said he was running "startx" as root. Maybe you should think for a second about your answers, if you're going to get snippy. The reason for "loging into X" as root is that it won't run otherwise, since X is no longer "SUID root" and he wanted to not use the Xwrapper. Get it now? Even more sorry now too, I hope. I doubt if he gained anything by avoiding Xwrapper, but it's usually a good instinct to reduce the number of variables like that. As for the orignal question, it looks nasty. Some kind of library problem. Like something didn't get built or installed correctly. Rebuild/reinstall the X software? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message