xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root

McManus

(Using Gentoo 1.4_rc1, XFree86_4.2.0, and NVidia vid. card...)

X works for root, but for non-root users I get this error

`xf86OpenConsole: Server must be suid root`

I did some searching on Google and the following two tricks were recommended:

1.) chmod +s XFree86
2.) chmod +s Xwrapper

For the first solution, chmod +s XFree86 doesn't fix anything, I still get the error.
For the second solution, well, I don't even have Xwrapper. I searched for that which led to a moderator pointing to this thread.

Any help/suggestions?
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McManus · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 4:46 am Post subject:

argh, I give up. I'm just gonna nuke the system and re-install. Maybe it was just a fluke. (if that doesn't work, I might try building the system with -O2 instead of -O3, and then use -O3 for everything else).
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McManus · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject:

well, it didn't work. I dunno what's up. I'm gonna play around and see if I can get it working, and if not, then I will try building my system with -O2 (system & X), and then everything else with -O3. C'mon, I know I can't be the _only_ person with this problem?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Are your permissions for /tmp correct?
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McManus · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 12:05 am Post subject:

my permissions for /tmp are:

drwxrwxrwt

(it has the sticky bit set). Is this right?
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Curious

McManus · Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2002 4:49 am Post subject:

Yeah, it's owned by root, and yes I did install properly (used 'p' option as well

).

What did you mean by the strace? Can you give me an example? BTW, it works for root...

Also, I don't know if I mentioned this, but originally I got the error that /var/log/XFree86.4.0 (or whatever, this is from memory) was not writeable, as only root had permissions to write to it. I changed its permissions to a+rw (it's just a log file) and then I started to get the error about 'suid'. My biggest question right now is why do I not have an Xwrapper? (is that an XFree 3.3.x script and not in XFree 4.2.0?) My other question is whether or not I added my user properly (I've done it about a million times now, and even tried with the 'superadduser' program, but still no go).
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McManus · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:04 pm Post subject:

update: xdm/kdm/gdm works, and I can use X from there... but overall it's still really annoying that I can't just 'startx' from the console, as I'm not very fond of xdm/kdm/gdm, since I have different X layouts (1 monitor, 2 monitor, or 3 monitors) and I dunno how to get xdm/kdm/gdm to play nicely with that.
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McManus · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:05 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah, and -O2 (instead of -O3) didn't make any difference. *sigh*...
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rac · Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 7:13 pm Post subject:

McManus · Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 9:12 am Post subject:

Hehe.... well... everything works now. My X issue and my 'su' issue. I don't know why. I re-downloaded the ISO and re-burned it (the file size is/was the same on both, so I guess the first burn was bad). I also used a few different compile options (all I added was -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -fomit-frame-pointer) and whala everything works now. (With the exception of mutt telling me {$HOME}/.maildir is not a mailbox, which I need to fix somehow...)

Thanks!

:oops:

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