On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote:
After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a regular
user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to
open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as
root I can successfully start and user both iceape and openoffice. I need
to alter the permissions so a regular use can use these programs and root
is not allowed to access the internet from iceape but I haven't found the
proper way to do this.
Tom George
Hi Tom,
This sounds kind of odd .. How are you getting into X? You really
shouldnt have to modify permissions to run these apps. Why did you have
to modify permissions to start a console window?
I am ashamed to say I don't remember exactly. I think the sequence was
that first X wouldn't start. Checking .mozilla on my other box I saw the
owners were tom:tom so I set the .mozilla owners on the new box to
tom:tom. I probably next did apt-get install icewm and the
/etc/init.d/gdm restart. Then I was into X but the apps didn't work. I
changed some of the permissions to 744 - again matching my other box -
and then could open the console window but the other apps aborted with
startup errors. I tried strace -e trace=open and saw a lot of failures
but on my old box I also saw many failures so I counldn't pinpoint any
problem. At this point I tried opening the apps from the console window
as root and they started with no problems.
To keep all the information in one posting I will also respond to other
replies.
First, both iceape and openoffice are in /usr/bin. openoffice is
a softlink to ooo-wrapper. All of these have rwxr-xr-x
permissions and are owned by root:root.
Second, I have tried apt-get --reinstall install openoffice.org
to no effect.
A final note: I tried starting gnome instead of icewm it started but
with limited capabilities - I could not access any apps.
Tom
So, gdm is not starting at boot? Are you starting that as root? What
happens if you run startx from the command line, as tom, not root? It
sounds like you dont have the proper permissions to connect to the X
server.
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