Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:55:50 +0200 From: Marc Silver <marcs@looney.co.za> To: Alan Tsang <atsang@hk.linkage.net> Cc: 'Jim Conner' <jconner@enterit.com>, 'Keith Walker' <kew@icehouse.net>, 'Marc W' <mwlist@lanfear.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to startx Message-ID: <20010202115550.A14744@looney.co.za> In-Reply-To: <000201c08cfb$c2c7d550$6a7ffea9@vulpecula>; from atsang@hk.linkage.net on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:36:38PM %2B0800 References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010131192811.031e0d78@mail.enterit.com> <000201c08cfb$c2c7d550$6a7ffea9@vulpecula>
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Hey there, Securelevel 1 doesn't allow writing to /dev/mem and /dev/kmem, which is required for X. Check out the man page for init(8) for more info on this. Cheers, Marc On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:36:38PM +0800, Alan Tsang wrote: > > > I could not startx even when I was "root". but eventually I solved the > problem by the following methods. > > either > set kernel_securelevel=0 in /etc/rc.conf > or > boot the system into single user mode. > > > Thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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