From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 14:38:59 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 84D0837B401 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:38:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3C043E06 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:38:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-19-74.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.19.74]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5SLciVU024266; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:38:44 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Jan Rocho , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:38:46 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <200206281726.53469.janrocho@gmx.li> In-Reply-To: <200206281726.53469.janrocho@gmx.li> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206281638.46114.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> 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 On Friday 28 June 2002 04:26 pm, Jan Rocho wrote: > Hi! > > I just made a new installion of FreeBSD on my new computer and encountered a > problem which I didn't have previously. When a user (not root) tries to start > the X-Server I get the message: > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root > > Well, now... any solutions? I don't want to run a graphical login (eg. > kdm,gdm,xdm). If you want to use startx, you must install x11/wrapper. If you install XFree86-4 from the ports, it will tell you this - unfortunately it seems that if you install the package from sysinstall, it doesn't. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message