On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > 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. > I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems.
I can only stop gdm as root. If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to switch users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root as the user. Tom > > -+- > 8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred > Techno. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]