From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 13 10:22:46 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 EEACA37B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.necro.edu (localhost.necro.edu [127.0.0.1]) by baddog.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DB0B1DC6; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:22:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:22:46 EST From: mike johnson To: "Cambria, Mike" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 only as root Reply-To: ahze@slaughter.necro.edu X-Mailer: Spruce 0.6.5 for X11 w/smtpio 0.7.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20001113182246.9DB0B1DC6@baddog.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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