-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 05:19:29PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:17:05AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: >>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Thomas H. George wrote: >>>> >>>>> After netinst of etch attempts to start iceape and openoffice as a >>>>> regular >>>>> user fail. I was able to alter permissions to allow a regular user to >>>>> open a console window. If, in the console window I become root, then as >>>>> root I can successfully start and user both iceape and openoffice. I >>>>> need >>>>> to alter the permissions so a regular use can use these programs and root >>>>> is not allowed to access the internet from iceape but I haven't found the >>>>> proper way to do this. >>>>> >>>>> Tom George >>>>> >>>> Hi Tom, >>>> >>>> This sounds kind of odd .. How are you getting into X? You really >>>> shouldnt have to modify permissions to run these apps. Why did you have >>>> to modify permissions to start a console window? >>>> >>> I am ashamed to say I don't remember exactly. I think the sequence was >>> that first X wouldn't start. Checking .mozilla on my other box I saw the >>> owners were tom:tom so I set the .mozilla owners on the new box to >>> tom:tom. I probably next did apt-get install icewm and the >>> /etc/init.d/gdm restart. Then I was into X but the apps didn't work. I >>> changed some of the permissions to 744 - again matching my other box - >>> and then could open the console window but the other apps aborted with >>> startup errors. I tried strace -e trace=open and saw a lot of failures >>> but on my old box I also saw many failures so I counldn't pinpoint any >>> problem. At this point I tried opening the apps from the console window >>> as root and they started with no problems. >>> >>> To keep all the information in one posting I will also respond to other >>> replies. >>> >>> First, both iceape and openoffice are in /usr/bin. openoffice is >>> a softlink to ooo-wrapper. All of these have rwxr-xr-x >>> permissions and are owned by root:root. >>> >>> Second, I have tried apt-get --reinstall install openoffice.org >>> to no effect. >>> >>> A final note: I tried starting gnome instead of icewm it started but >>> with limited capabilities - I could not access any apps. >>> >>> Tom >> So, gdm is not starting at boot? Are you starting that as root? What >> happens if you run startx from the command line, as tom, not root? It >> sounds like you dont have the proper permissions to connect to the X >> server. >> > I rebooted and gdm starts, opens icewm with aforementioned problems. > > I can only stop gdm as root. > > If I run startx as tom it starts gdm and opens icewm with the same > problems. If I run startx as root it opens gnome and if I try to switch > users to tom its a no-op, the desktop remains open with root as the > user.
Did you have another distribution on your system and keep your /home from it? It sounds to me like your /home has permission problems. That can happen if your userid doesn't match. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGEqSziXBCVWpc5J4RAm3/AKC4sfj6Be+0afYVGOUjtQztsQmLLgCgpwHb Jp/XZHO2+NDu5mChgiJk2TM= =GD9h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
