[SOLVED] xscreensaver help

SeRi@lDiE · 07-06-2011, 11:34 PM

I just upgraded to xscreen saver 5.14 from the default slackware 5.12 because I was having some small issues....

I used the xscreensaver slackbuild and worked just fine. After the upgrade I relaunched xcsreensaver and got the following message:

The xscreensaver daemon did not start up properly.
Please check your $PATH and permissions.

I am not sure whats going on since is not leaving a trace in the logs behind.

Any ideas?

TIA!

SeRi@lDiE · 07-06-2011, 11:35 PM

Ah! looks like a group issue... :P follow the error!

hehehe lets see what I dig.

dilema@oscuridad:~$ xscreensaver
xscreensaver: 23:35:27: couldn't setgroups to dilema (1000): Operation not permitted
xscreensaver: 23:35:27: effective group list: [disk, floppy, audio, video, cdrom, plugdev, power, netdev, users, nx, dilema, vboxusers]
dilema@oscuridad:~$

SeRi@lDiE · 07-06-2011, 11:41 PM

ah!

root@oscuridad:/usr/bin# chmod +s xscreensaver

Did the trick...