On 01/11/10 06:04, Ryan Daly wrote: > On 01/11/2010 09:02 AM, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >> 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. > > No problem... Let me know if you come up with anything else I can try... > --
cool, at the moment away from myoffice(remotely), if anything comes to mind I'll think outloud with a post.. Justin P. Mattock _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
