Thomas Mueller wrote: >Following the corrruption of my USB-stick installation of >NetBSD-current amd64 (6.99.44), I used my USB-stick installation of >NetBSD-6.99.44 i386, base system with no packages, to build and >install NetBSD-current amd64 and i386 on two hard drive partitions >(GPT).
How did you install NetBSD on the two partitions ? >Even with 32 MB RAM, building userland and GENERIC kernel, including >native X, took from 16:10:00 UTC to 21:26:21 on Mon Aug 11 to build >for amd64 and 9:44:18 to 14:06:42 on Aug 12 to buid for i386. > >I realize that from i386 without PAE, I had effectively 4 GB RAM, not 32 GB. You will have less than 4GB, various devices on the PCI bus will claim some of it. >I set up nonroot account and found I could not access man page because >file in /tmp could not be created, permission denied, but it worked >when I made /home/arlene/mydir and export TMPDIR=/home/arlene/mydir >(nonroot user here being arlene). Check the permissions on /tmp. >I also could not startx because of permissions problem on /var/log/Xorg.0.log. >I never had this particular problem before on any multiuser OS: >NetBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. >Has anybody else noticed this? Nope. The X server should be setuid root, it will then be able to write the log file. % ls -l /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg -rws--x--x 1 root wheel 2528297 Aug 11 21:04 /usr/X11R7/bin/Xorg >I could startx as root, only with DRMKMS, but mouse was dead (not >detected), though I was able to set up a surrogate mouse with >x11/xkbset from pkgsrc. % ls -l /dev/wsmouse crw------- 1 root wheel 65, 0 Apr 12 2012 /dev/wsmouse If your X server isn't setuid root then it won't be able to open the mouse device file. Do you see your mouse listed in /var/run/dmesg ? Check the ownership and permissions on what you copied to your hard disk partitions. Robert Swindells
