On 01/11/10 05:53, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/11/2010 08:47 AM, Tom Cowell wrote: >> Ah yes. My strace suggestion would have the same problem. >> >> On my machine (and presumably yours) the Xorg binary is setuid-root - >> it acquires elevated permissions when you run it, and this breaks the >> process tracing (and it seems odd to me (though I haven't tried) that >> you were able to debug it). >> >> You could try repeating your valgrind test as root, maybe. > > I did try the strace as root, but I received errors there, too: > > > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > > X: unable to open wrapper config file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > xauth: timeout in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority > >
my bad didn't even think about setuid(thought valgrind would work without the whole root thing). I guess abort that idea. Justin P. Mattock _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
