On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > > I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs. > > > Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability? > > > > I am; the command failures don't happen to me, but when starting X with a > > non-privileged user I get that error. > > > > Looks like some authetication problem. What does `ids' report before > > and after startx? > > It reports: > > effective uids: 1000(sbowman) > effective gids: 1000(sbowman) > available uids: 1000(sbowman) 1000(sbowman) > available gids: 1000(sbowman) 1000(sbowman) > > before and afterwards it is also "Killed". Same with 'id'.
This happens when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set, and Mark fixed it in glibc CVS. The next CVS version will have the fix, but I don't know if this will help with running X as user. Running X as root does work, btw. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
