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? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
