Re: Report on X
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:48:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote:
> > > > I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs.
> > > > Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability?
> > >
> > > I am; the command failures don't happen to me, but when starting X with a
> > > non-privileged user I get that error.
> > >
> > > Looks like some authetication problem. What does `ids' report before
> > > and after startx?
> >
> > It reports:
> >
> > effective uids: 1000(sbowman)
> > effective gids: 1000(sbowman)
> > available uids: 1000(sbowman) 1000(sbowman)
> > available gids: 1000(sbowman) 1000(sbowman)
> >
> > before and afterwards it is also "Killed". Same with 'id'.
>
> This happens when LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set, and Mark fixed it in glibc CVS.
> The next CVS version will have the fix, but I don't know if this will help
> with running X as user. Running X as root does work, btw.
Looks about right - unsetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH terminates the strange
behavior. btw, had it running as root before starting thread - this
just looked interesting to see what's going on here.
Thanks,
Steve
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