X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2?
Hi! Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it or this is due to some stupidity on my part but I just did a fresh install of 4.6.1-RC2 and told it to install X for the first time. Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal user it died telling me that : -- start paste -- (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root -- end paste -- Was this a mistake made when installing X? Thanks! Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2?
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: Hi! Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it or this is due to some stupidity on my part but I just did a fresh install of 4.6.1-RC2 and told it to install X for the first time. Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal user it died telling me that : -- start paste -- (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root -- end paste -- Was this a mistake made when installing X? Thanks! Andrew. Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2?
Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal user it died telling me that : -- start paste -- (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root -- end paste -- Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package You are, of course, completely right. Thanks also to David Wolfskill for pointing this out. When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
Re: X not suid root in 4.6.1-RC2?
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:13:39AM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote: Maxim M. Kazachek wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Andrew Boothman wrote: Having installed X and configured it, when I tried to run X as a normal user it died telling me that : -- start paste -- (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Permission denied) linear framebuffer access unavailable Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root -- end paste -- Seems like you need to install x11/wrapper package You are, of course, completely right. Thanks also to David Wolfskill for pointing this out. When installing via sysinstall users don't get shown the message explaining that they need xwrapper if the want to use startx. Does anyone else think that they should either be told or we just add xwrapper as a depandancy of the XFree86 package? Adding xwrapper as a dependency is a good idea. It is in fact such a good idea that it has already been done, about a month ago. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-stable in the body of the message
