From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 12:15:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from baddog.yi.org (24-216-177-184.hsacorp.net [24.216.177.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC8C337B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by baddog.yi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25A071DC6; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:15:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baddog.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E10CD48; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:15:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:15:13 -0500 (EST) From: mike johnson To: "Cambria, Mike" Cc: "'ahze@baddog.yi.org'" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root In-Reply-To: <443F9E4C6D67D4118C9800A0C9DD99D7108154@rerun.lucentctc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you install X from ports or a package? I have noticed in the past if you ALREADY have X installed if you upgrade it will *sometimes* mess up. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Cambria, Mike wrote: > > Thanks, > > Setuid ( chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 ) did the trick. This is the > 3rd system which I recently installed X & kde2, yet the others were setup > just fine. Go figure. > > MikeC > > -----Original Message----- > From: mike johnson [mailto:ahze@baddog.yi.org] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:23 PM > To: Cambria, Mike; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root > > > sounds like your premissions are messed up. > > try > > chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/* > chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/X* > > > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Cambria, Mike wrote: > > Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:36:16 -0500 > > To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" > > > From: "Cambria, Mike" > > Subject: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root > > > > > > I can start XFree86 4.0.1 (and kde2) just fine as root, > but received the > > following error as a normal user: > > > > Fatal server error: > > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > > > I am running 4.2-Beta (cvsup as of Thursday 9 November). > The XFree86-4 > > and > > kde2 ports are installed. My graphics card is the i810. > > > > The only problem I see running as root is I cannot logout > of KDE. To > > exit I > > use control-alt-backspace. Other than that, the system > runs just fine. > > > > Any ideas as to what the problem is? > > > > Thanks, > > MikeC > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the > message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message