Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:23:21 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdmflexiserver crashes X Message-ID: <1071818600.1360.3.camel@compass> In-Reply-To: <1071817755.30952.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1071802604.58179.20.camel@compass> <1071812734.30952.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1071817748.1278.17.camel@compass> <1071817755.30952.16.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 02:09, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 02:09, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 00:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > > > Known bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127780. I think > > > this has to do with the following commit: > > > > > > Thu Sep 25 11:23:24 2003 George Lebl <jirka@5z.com> > > > > > > * 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. > > > > > > I'd add your info to the bug as it's definitely lacking some details. > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > <snip> > > > > 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 > > > > > Tom Here's what I just did: [root@compass:ttyp1 bin]# chmod +s gdmflexiserver [tom@compass tom]$ gdmflexiserver -xnest (gdmflexiserver:1353): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details, see: http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html Refusing to initialize GTK+. The process won't start as suid.
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