[SOLVED] OpenBSD

kooru · 08-05-2014, 08:56 AM

the title of the topic misleads..

Huamin · 08-05-2014, 10:42 PM

Thanks all.
After having installed both xorg and xfce, how to start GUI interface?

hitest · 08-05-2014, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huamin

Thanks all.
After having installed both xorg and xfce, how to start GUI interface?

Here is a direct quote from the FreeBSD handbook.

Quote:

Unlike GNOME or KDE, Xfce does not provide its own login manager. In order to start Xfce from the command line by typing startx, first add its entry to ~/.xinitrc:

% echo "exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4" > ~/.xinitrc

Here is the link.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ok/x11-wm.html

P.S. check out the section for xorg configuation as well, for hal and dbus.

Huamin · 08-13-2014, 03:12 AM

Many thanks!
If I do not want to start the GUI upon startup now, what to adjust?

cynwulf · 08-13-2014, 07:13 AM

Following hitest's advice above does not start a GUI on startup. If you followed the link and enabled a display manager such as kdm4 or gdm and now decided that you don't want it, just undo or comment out whatever you did to /etc/rc.conf

angryfirelord · 08-13-2014, 08:55 AM

Huamin, why did you give up on OpenBSD so quickly? All you had to do was type yes to continue without verification.....

In the event you do decide to come back to it, here's the page the deals with package management: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

OpenBSD comes with xenocara (a slightly modified version of X for OpenBSD), so you don't need to install it. Installing xfce is a simple matter of pkg_add -v xfce.

Huamin · 08-13-2014, 10:59 PM

Many thanks all.
Cyn,
It seems that file is not editable. Any advice?
huamin@:~ % ls -l /etc/rc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 164 Aug 6 09:40 /etc/rc.conf

cynwulf · 08-14-2014, 02:56 PM

You would need to be root to edit configuration files in /etc

hitest · 08-14-2014, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cynwulf

You would need to be root to edit configuration files in /etc

Indeed. I think it is important for the OP to read the available documentation for FreeBSD.

Huamin · 08-14-2014, 08:49 PM

Hi,
Thanks Cyn.
I don't know why I can't use 'su' below.

huamin@:~ % su
su: Sorry
huamin@:~ % ls -l /etc/rc.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 164 Aug 6 09:40 /etc/rc.conf

astrogeek · 08-14-2014, 08:59 PM

With FreeBSD only users who are members of the wheel group may "su".

You will need to login as root and edit /etc/group and add user huamin to that group (like: wheel:*:0:root,huamin). Then huamin may "su".

As others have indicated, it is very much worthwhile to spend a few hours reading through the FreeBSD Handbook. I am a FreeBSD newbie myself, but what I have learned came mostly from that and the man pages and a few Ports makefiles.

Hope this helps - even with OpenBSD!

cynwulf · 08-15-2014, 06:13 AM

Typical UNIX su requires the wheel group by default. GNU su does not require it for purely ideological reasons (explained by RMS).

In case astrogeek's post was not clear, you need to actually login as the root user at a virtual terminal in order to make these changes.

astrogeek · 08-15-2014, 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cynwulf

Typical UNIX su requires the wheel group by default. GNU su does not require it for purely ideological reasons (explained by RMS).

I am surprised that I was unaware of this particular RMS-ism (or had forgotten it), but had recently found this difference between GNU/Linux and and FreeBSD. The man is fully committed to his cause - I admire that! Thanks for contributing to my own knowledge base!

Huamin · 08-15-2014, 08:52 PM

Many thanks Cyn and also thanks to Astrogeek.

Cyn,
The main reason is, I had some problem to login as root when starting the machine, since I did enable GUI to this. this is also why I need to change rc.conf file.

anyway, I'm having the problem to switch to su.

cynwulf · 08-16-2014, 04:37 AM

You should be able to switch to a different VT using e.g. CTRL+ALT+F2, login as root, etc.

If all else fails, boot into single user mode: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/Single-user_mode