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  From: Andrew Pullin <drewp@bigpond.com>
  To  : tjcorkin@steadycom.com.au
  Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:45:23 +0930

Re: Couple of strange problems.

Hi Guys,
    I posted the below a couple of weeks ago, but it seems
to have been buried in other stuff. The only response I got
was the one also below, but I still don't have a
satisfactory answer to my problems. Thanks to Toby for his
effort, but if "M$ redefining ascii" or "booting a Sun 3/60"
gets multiple responses, do you think that a real Linux
question could get more than 1. I really am still stuck with
these problems, particularly the printer problem.
    Thanks,
        Andrew.


>I don't know about your first problem, but the second one
sounds
>suspiciously like X is no longer SUID root. I'm not sure
where the suid
>root is supposed to be though, but maybe someone else will.
>I don't see how this could really have occured though. But
it's just a
>thought that X DOES need to be suid root to access the
video card
>directly, and so if a user can't run it, it looks like it
doesnt have
>it's root priveleges.
>
>Toby
>
>Andrew Pullin wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>     Couple of problems, unrelated on two different
machines.
>>
>> Problem 1.
>>
>>     Machine running Redhat 5.2, has been running
perfectly
>> no problems. Just upgraded video card to a Diamond
Viper550
>> AGP card. Was running XFree86 3.1 or whatever was default
>> with the APC disk, and this didn't like the new Video
card
>> so I downloaded  the latest X 3.3 and it now runs fine,
no
>> problems. Now here is the strange bit, the Printer, an HP
>> DeskJet 670C, was running fine, but now it will only
print
>> Postscript. It will NOT print standard output or a text
>> file. Went to the printer tool in X, printed PS, ascii to
>> the port, ie dev/lpt0, this worked fine. Tried to print
>> ascii test page and the error light on the printer
started
>> flashing and no output. Cannot pipe cat text to lp, ie.
>>         cat .bashrc | lpr -lp
>> weird. Can print PS through Ghostview. I just don't
>> understand how this can happen when I have not changed
>> anything remotely to do with the printer. The same
symptoms
>> occur if I am running X or not.
>>
>> Problem 2.
>>
>>     Machine is completely isolated from machine 1.
Machine 2
>> is an Intel Celeron 333, 128Mb RAM, Diamond Viper 330 AGP
>> Video card. Installed a virgin copy of Redhat 5.2 from
the
>> APC disk. Machine appeared to set up fine, appeared to be
>> working fine. X runs perfectly under root. Strange
>> occurrence number 2 - created 1 user in the normal
fashion,
>> gave him a passwd etc. Logged in as that user, no
problems.
>> That user CANNOT run X. runs startx command and gets the
>> initial grey screen with a cursor, and then it appears to
>> hang. Fire off a trusty Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get the following
>> message :
>>
>> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports :
>> > Error    bad length in Geometry
>> >            Output File "var/temp/Server-0.xkm" removed
>> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
>> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>> xinit : unexpected error 2
>>
>> Waiting for X server to shutdown
>>
>> O.K. now I expect the last 2 lines were me when I Ctrl-C
to
>> kill the process. But how can it work fine for root but
not
>> a user in this case. The setup was a virgin install onto
a
>> virgin hard disk and was done in exactly the same way as
I
>> setup other machines that have no problems. I am a bit
out
>> of my depth here so basically help guys.
>>
>>     Cheers!
>>         Andrew
>>
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