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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:09:15 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gdmflexiserver crashes X
Message-ID:  <1071817755.30952.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1071817748.1278.17.camel@compass>
References:  <1071802604.58179.20.camel@compass> <1071812734.30952.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1071817748.1278.17.camel@compass>

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On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 02:09, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > <snip>
> >=20
> > Known bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D127780.  I think
> > this has to do with the following commit:
> >=20
> > Thu Sep 25 11:23:24 2003  George Lebl <jirka@5z.com>
> >                                                                        =
        =20
> >         * daemon/errorgui.c, daemon/slave.c: be even analer (is that
> >           a word?) about the setuid stuff here (it can't actually
> >           fail, but just in case, we're being paranoid)  Also reset
> >           the environment and desetuid for the setup program even
> >           though that's not really needed.
> >=20
> > I'd add your info to the bug as it's definitely lacking some details.
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> > <snip>
>=20
> Thanks, wasn't sure if it was a problem with the port or not.  I've
> updated the report in gnome's bugzilla with the information.  I'll have
> to see if I can find a work around in the meantime, possibly sudo.  The
> only reason I have X running unnecessarilly on different machines is so
> that I can have nifty remote desktops and feel like a total geek.  :-/

A possible workaround would be to setuid root the flexiserver.

Joe

>=20
> Tom
--=20
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