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gvaught 01-01-2005 12:14 PM
permissions issue with X
 
Greetings all,

I am having a bit of an issue with my latest re-install of Debian. I used the netinst CD and installed the 2.6.8 kernel. I thought it was the hottest thing out there, but it seems I'm seeing some 2.6.9/10 posts for other distros. Anyway, my issue has nothing to do with the kernel version (I hope).

I had my system set up with the Sarge net install version and really liked it. I had everything set just the way I liked it and had pretty much settled in with it when I decided to build a DNS server (on another box) and to attempt to cut to the chase, I rebooted my workstation on Christmas day and KDE/X was gone. Kaput. After dinking around a while, I opted to just reinstall. After all, it's Linux, it's Open Source, nobody cares how many times I install it on how many machines!!! So, I spent three days before I found the right distribution (who knew Woody came before Sarge?) and then, once I did the install, it didn't like my video card so well (ATI Radeon 9200) and would only give me 1024x768, although it did default to 24-bit color depth. Well this is a nice res, but I have grown very fond of my 1280x1024 (I think) and the way it lays out. So, I spent a few hours yesterday getting the ATI driver for this card (1) found, (2) converted to a .deb and (3) installed/configured/running.

Today I have a wonderful, high-res display that just warms my little root to its core. My issue now is that I can't load X/KDE/Gnome in my user account. That's it. I have looked at the Xsession.errors file under my user account and found the following
Code:
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "gary"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
startkde: Starting up...
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/apps not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/emblems not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/devices not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/apps not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/emblems not valid.
kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/Amaranth/ group scalable/devices not valid.

...snip... (there's the same message for every 'group' in the icons directory)

...Too much output, ignoring rest...
Xsession: X session started for gary at Sat Jan  1 02:38:12 CST 2005
localhost being added to access control list
Xsession: X session started for gary at Sat Jan  1 02:38:31 CST 2005
localhost being added to access control list
Xsession: X session started for gary at Sat Jan  1 02:43:33 CST 2005
localhost being added to access control list
Xsession: X session started for gary at Sat Jan  1 02:43:52 CST 2005
localhost being added to access control list
I have checked the permissions (afaik) and they are all set to 755 (rwxr-xr-x) which should allow me to run X/KDE under my user account. But it's not. So, here I am begging for help from those who are geekier than I, or at least those more experienced with this than I. If there's anything that I haven't included that needs to be here, let me know so I can do that. But, afaik, the issue here is permissions, but I don't know on what!?!?! It obviously works, since the root account is being so helpful right now. I just need it to work for me as a user.

Anyway, too long, lots o' words to say what I need. Sorry. But help me, PLEASE!!

leonscape 01-01-2005 04:16 PM
This sounds like a group configuration problem. Check your user, they should be a member of group video and audio.

The easiest way to do this is to login as root and edit the file /etc/group

video:x:44:TheUser,AntherUser

This is the line your looking for ( The number might be diffrent ) SImply add the user to the end of the line, if theres more than one use commas to seprate the login names.

gvaught 01-01-2005 09:26 PM
Thx for the info. I checked the file (/etc/group) and 'gary' was already a (the) member of both audio and video. I did, although, find a group called 'gdm' that 'gary' was not a member of. So, I'm going to give that a try and see what happens. Again, thx for the info, it was helpful in getting me to look in another area and (possibly) find something that could be helpful.

leonscape 01-02-2005 12:07 PM
Another thing you might want to check out is the /dev folder. I know with the Nvidia drivers it adds devices nvidia0, nvidia1, nvidia2, nvidia3, and nvidiactl. The debian drivers usually set these devices with the group video. What I was thinking was maybe ati have something similar, and maybe they have their group set too root, and not video?


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