Re: startx wont load anymore as root
marlon corleone wrote: startx wont load anymore running it as root. the problem started when i got a improper shutdown, and when i reboot i saw this error message dmesg /var /usr was not properly dismounted, so what i did, is boot in single user and do a fsck then when i boot the error is gone i can do startx in normal user, but not as ROOT. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > startx -bash : start: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > anyone help Hi! 1) You nust set sgid bit on /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper-4 (if it not set). # ls -la Xwrapper-4 -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5280 May 27 19:28 Xwrapper-4 OR 2) use xdm|gdm|kdm. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Good start point http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html Serge. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: startx wont load anymore as root
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, marlon corleone wrote: > startx wont load anymore running it as root. the > problem started when i got a improper shutdown, and > when i reboot > i saw this error message dmesg /var /usr was not > properly dismounted, so what i did, is boot in single > user and do a fsck then when i boot the error is gone > i can do startx in normal user, but not as ROOT. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > startx > -bash : start: command not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > > > anyone help Try: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx But you shouldn't run X as root anyways... You could have also done: which startx as yourself, noted the path, and then ran /usr/X11R6/bin/startx as root. --Charlie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
startx wont load anymore as root
startx wont load anymore running it as root. the problem started when i got a improper shutdown, and when i reboot i saw this error message dmesg /var /usr was not properly dismounted, so what i did, is boot in single user and do a fsck then when i boot the error is gone i can do startx in normal user, but not as ROOT. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > startx -bash : start: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root > anyone help __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
