Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Mar 2000 08:40:43 -0500 | From | Douglas Gilbert <> | Subject | Re: once again devfs and X |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > I patched my util-linux. But this still doesn't solve the problem > > with X. What do I need to do to make my X work again? > > This is apparently a common problem with devfs... I traced the problem > to Xwrapper, but strace does follow it too well after the fork(). > Didn't have time to trace it further. > > Please post a solution if you find one, I have this problem and have > seen others post about it too.
Martin, There are a few ideas that might help you on this page:
http://www.torque.net/sg/devfs_scsi.html
The Xwrapper problem seems to effect non-root X users and one fix is to make an addition to the /etc/security/console.perms file. I don't know the security implications of this but it worked for me :-)
Doug Gilbert
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