Re: [Sheflug] Blasted X Server again!

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Hi Barrie,

looks to me like Stephen Turnbull has your problems wired, but as I've not
played with a Linux xserver in over a year I help with specifics. But a
couple of things to look at spring to mind immidiately...

<suck eggs>
The first is covered by Stephen's SUID root stuff: it looks like the log
file perms are not set for the xserver to write as user oracle.

"client rejected". This may be an xhost + thing...again most likely solved
by SUID root. xhost + is a nasty mechanism that I never like to unset. Any
changes need to be as restrictive as possible. Some applications object to
it as a (rightly) paranoid saftey catch. the mail client exmh being one of
these applications that I know of.

My memory fails me on this one ( I don't have the man pages to hand), but
I've a feeling that you can only run one instance of part of X. I forget
which bit, but that may be why you can't start a second instance.
</suck eggs>

I may on the other hand be talking complete a**e. But if Stephen's stuff
doesn't solve all your problems, then poking around in the areas I suggest
may help a little. Oh it would be stunningly helpful if I had my Linux box
up and running today...or anyone of the numerous planned Unix/Linux boxes.

HTH (a little)
Lewis
----- Original Message -----
From: Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 5:17 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] Blasted X Server again!


> Am I stupid, or is everything just conspiring against me this week?
>
> I'm attempting to run the startx command as a non-root user (root works
> OK), and the server is give the following error:
>
> [oracle@flux oracle]$ startx -- :1
>
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.1.log"
>
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.1.log".
> Please reports problems to xfree86 [at] xfree86.org.
>
> Now, looking at the log file the last line is:
>
> AUDIT: Sun Dec 24 16:53:28 2000: 1995 X: client 5 rejected from local
> host
>
> I ran the startx command above at 1712hrs, I had emacs open earlier, but
> why is the server complaining it can't open the log file? It's managed
> OK for the past few weeks, and I'm clever enough to know not to play
> with the XServer when it's working :-)
>
>  I can get individual programs run by a user to connect to my XServer
> and display the window, but I can't get a new server started...
>
>  This behaviour is the same for the other 2 users I've tried, and I
> don't know where to start.
>
>  Baz.
> --
> Barrie J. Bremner
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