Re: can't run X as user
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 04:44:53PM -0500, Brian Stults wrote:
> I posted this message twice to debian-user, and searched all over the
> internet. Having not found an answer yet, I am reluctantly posting the
> question here. Sorry to bother, but I am at a dead end.
>
> I know I've seen this before, but I cannot find the solution anywhere. I
> recently re-installed sid to an empty partition. I can run X as root
> just fine. But when I try to run it as a user, I get the following
> errors in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
>
>
> (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
>
> Fatal server error:
> xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root
[...]
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7476 Aug 29 11:30 X
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 1584152 Aug 29 11:30 XFree86
I wonder if you have /usr mounted with the nosuid option? What does
'mount' say?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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