On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:48:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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.
Looks about right - unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH terminates the strange behavior. btw, had it running as root before starting thread - this just looked interesting to see what's going on here. Thanks, Steve -- Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (preferred) Buckeye, AZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.goodnet.com/~sbowman/> Powered by Debian GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd <http://www.debian.org>