Hello fellow SuSErs! After installing XFree84-4.0.2, I have the following problem with KDE/KDM/KWM: When I log in from the KDM screen, I simply get a single xterm. My KDE desktop does not load. I put a few echo statements in /sbin/init.d/xdm and they show that WINDOWMANAGER and DISPLAYMANAGER are set to "kdm" and "kwm" -- what else needs to be set up? If I run .xinitrc from the xterm window, then the KDE desktop starts OK. Also, If I kill the X-session and run startx (as a normal user from a tty) then KDE Starts up OK. Just yesterday I installed XFree86 4.0.1 and did not have this problem! I thought putting 4.0.2 on top would be easy. ======= The following may or may not be significant ============= I do get several errors when I run .xinitrc: robert@home:~ > . .xinitrc Updating default desktop Creating Floppy icons... Creating CD-ROM icons... Creating ZIP icons... Creating Windows - harddisk icons... Creating Harddisk icons... Starting kcontrol -init...Done. Starting kaudioserver...Done. xwininfo: error: No window with name kpanel exists! Waiting 2 seconds for kpanel... Starting kfm...Done. Starting krootwm...Done. Starting kwmsound...Done. Some pixmaps are not valid: GimmickMode dissabled Starting khotkeys...Done. Starting kbgndwm...Starting kpanel...kmix restore mode disabled. Done. kmix should be started from startkde Done. KFM seems to be crashed !!!!!!! Running new KFM !!!!!!!!!!!!!! xwininfo: error: No window with name kpanel exists! Waiting 2 seconds for kpanel... KFM is already running Max Entries = 42 Starting kmix...Done. /bin/bash: VSlick: command not found imwheel started (pid=8812) Using Yast to check files in xf86rpm showed several several missing files, but I don't know if this is OK (perhaps they existed in 4.0, but no longer exist in 4.0.2). Here are a few examples: missing /etc/X11/fs/config missing /etc/X11/lbxproxy/AtomControl missing /etc/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig missing /etc/X11/rstart/commands missing /etc/X11/rstart/commands/@List missing /etc/X11/rstart/commands/ListContexts missing /etc/X11/rstart/commands/ListGenericCommands missing /etc/X11/rstart/commands/x ... missing /etc/X11/xdm/README.SuSE missing /etc/X11/xdm/README.security missing /etc/X11/xdm/RunChooser missing /etc/X11/xdm/TakeDevices missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.fs missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup missing /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling ... etc. ... -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
I removed world read/execute permissions from /proc and I can't see that it broke anything, so far. Why is /proc world readable by default? I don't want shell users snooping around in there. Egan
I removed world read/execute permissions from /proc and I can't see that it broke anything, so far.
Why is /proc world readable by default? I don't want shell users snooping around in there.
Er, why not? What are you hoping to stop them seeing? The /proc directory is there for programs, especially scripts, to see what the system is doing. All the world readable information in there would be available via the system API at the C level anyway, so you haven't closed what you perceive to be a security hole. The stuff in /proc which shouldn't be seen by regular users is protected by read/write permissions already: try looking at the contents of a directory which represents a process you don't own. I would suggest you put it back. There's not much that uses /proc that you might use on a day to day basis, but you're going to hit some pretty weird errors sooner or later.
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:47:12 +0000, Derek Fountain <derek@fortstar.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Why is /proc world readable by default? I don't want shell users snooping around in there.
Er, why not? What are you hoping to stop them seeing?
meminfo, cpuinfo, and other stuff curious shell users want to know, but I don't want them to know.
I just upgraded my home box to suse 7.0, sound works as root but not as anyother user. Do i need to set permision somewhere for it to work on normal users. jack Jack Malone jack@malone.tyler.com http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:18:34 -0600 Jack Malone <jack@malone.tyler.com> wrote:
I just upgraded my home box to suse 7.0, sound works as root but not as anyother user. Do i need to set permision somewhere for it to work on normal users.
Just add the users to the audio group. Regards... -- Jean-François Bocquet <tns01@free.fr> ================================+ http://tns01.free.fr | ··· Linux User #177410| | GPG publickey: http://tns01.free.fr/pubkey.asc | fingerprints: 4E98 A7F2 6C26 6554 9562 C64E 5548 BF94 DE59 0A12 | =================================+ | -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ +------------------------------------+ Version: 3.12 Comment: For info see http://www.geekcode.com GCS/S d-- s:+ a- C++ UL+>++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o+ K- !w O? M? V? PS PE- Y+ PGP+ t+ 5? X++ R tv++ b+ DI- D+ G e+ h! r-- y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
At 09:20 PM 1/21/2001 +0100, Jean-François Bocquet wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:18:34 -0600 Jack Malone <jack@malone.tyler.com> wrote:
I just upgraded my home box to suse 7.0, sound works as root but not as anyother user. Do i need to set permision somewhere for it to work on normal users.
Just add the users to the audio group. They are a member of the audio group but sound still does not work for them.
jack Jack Malone jack@malone.tyler.com http://www.ballistic.com/~jemalone Luke 4:18-19 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (NIV)
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:49:31PM -0600, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
Hello fellow SuSErs!
After installing XFree84-4.0.2, I have the following problem with KDE/KDM/KWM:
When I log in from the KDM screen, I simply get a single xterm. My KDE desktop does not load. I put a few echo statements in /sbin/init.d/xdm and they show that WINDOWMANAGER and DISPLAYMANAGER are set to "kdm" and "kwm" -- what else needs to be set up?
To answer my own question... The problem went away after uninstalling and then reinstalling XFree84-4.0.2. Likely to have been some operator error the first time! -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen@texas.net
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