Xscreensaver daemon 4.21

spaceballs · 04-06-2005, 05:30 AM

I just upgraded to xscreensaver 4.21. When I try and start the daemon, it says the daemon failed to start properly, and to check my $PATH and permissions. When I run echo $PATH, I get this:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.

Has anyone else had a similar problem? How can I fix this?

keefaz · 04-06-2005, 08:44 AM

Could you post the output with :

ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver

spaceballs · 04-06-2005, 09:52 AM

As soon as I get back to it, I will. I have tried this on two computers, so I think it may be a current problem. I have no problem recompiling. Did no one else have an issue with this?

netcrawl · 04-06-2005, 10:30 AM

>Did no one else have an issue with this?<

I had to chown /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver from root.shadow to root.bin to get xscreensaver 4.21 to work. And I threw in a small script into /home/file/.kde/Autostart to get xscreensaver to start automatically with KDE.

Might not be the best solution, but it works, so I'm not overly concerned...

spaceballs · 04-07-2005, 08:59 AM

Could you please tell me what that means? What difference does it make whether it is owned by root.shadow or root.bin? How do I just add something to my path?

spaceballs · 04-08-2005, 08:07 AM

This worked. Did everyone have this issue that upgraded from 4.19 to 4.21?

gbonvehi · 04-08-2005, 08:56 AM

I've it too, I guess it's a problem with the current package.