Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread unni krishnan 
Dan,

  setuid was not set. I have set that and X is working now.

bash-3.2$ ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 1563180 Feb 19 15:31 /usr/bin/Xorg
bash-3.2$

Thanks for the solution :-)

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Dan Nicholson  wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM, unni krishnan 
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am getting following error when starting X as normal user :
> >
> > Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686
> > Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP
> PREEMPT
> > Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686
> > (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty7 failed: Operation not permitted
> > (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: Operation not permitted
> > xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
> >
> > I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please
> > help.
>
> Is Xorg setuid to root?
>
> sudo chown root $prefix/Xorg
> sudo chmod u+s $prefix/Xorg
>
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Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread Dan Nicholson 
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:51 PM, unni krishnan  wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am getting following error when starting X as normal user :
>
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.10 i686
> Current Operating System: Linux host.webofunni.com 2.6.27.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT
> Wed Dec 24 21:37:14 CET 2008 i686
> (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty7 failed: Operation not permitted
> (WW) xf86OpenConsole: chown /dev/tty0 failed: Operation not permitted
> xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
>
> I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface. Please
> help.

Is Xorg setuid to root?

sudo chown root $prefix/Xorg
sudo chmod u+s $prefix/Xorg

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Re: Not able to start X as normal user

2009-02-26 Thread Torgeir Veimo 

On 26 Feb 2009, at 23:51, unni krishnan wrote:

> I am able to start X as root and using xfce as desktop interface.  
> Please help.


Are you running with selinux enabled?

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