From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 5 22:00:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02354 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02349 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au (exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.94]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA30205; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:26:05 +0930 (CST) Received: from eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.2.111]) by exchsa1.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id 3LFRGD1Q; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:30:12 +0930 Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA09111; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:30:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <35A059DD.D99C0753@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 14:30:13 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer Organization: Defence Science Technology Organisation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X no longer works... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This could be related to the recent kernel security level changes. To check, run the following as root: # sysctl -a | grep secur kern.securelevel: -1 If your kernel is not running at level -1 you wont be able to start X. (at least I couldn't). To make sure it runs at level -1 make sure you have updated your /etc files after your lastest world build. In particular /etc/rc sets the security level based on the options in the latest /etc/rc.conf which has these 2 entries recently added: kern_securelevel_enable="NO" # kernel security level (see init(8)), kern_securelevel="-1" # range: -1..2 ; `-1' is the most insecure You do need to merge in the recent changes to rc.conf as the security level will be changed if kern_securelevel_enable is anything other than "NO". The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Morning... > > I recently did an upgrade of my machine, running FreeBSD-CURRENT, > and now can't seem to run X anymore, with an error of: > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (Operation not permitted) > > My first thought was that it was KDE related, by the KEDNABIO > message, but disabling KDE and using some other window manager brings > up the same error message :( > > I've tried rebuilding XFree86 and KDE, but that hasn't appeared to > help any... > > Am going to upgrade my source tree and kernel today, but has > anyone else seen this? Did I just get a source snapshot between good > ones? > > Marc G. Fournier > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message