Can not run Programs that Require Root Access

[Ashley Pritchard]

XFree86 was not installed

On 6/30/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>
> Ashley Pritchard wrote:
> > OK I was at work today & was thinking about what I was doing before my
> > problem of not being able to run programs as root from my user acct &
> > did a little bit of research on the issue.
> > In this process I cam over the suggestion to edit /root/.bashrc & add:
> > export XAUTHORITY= /home/awp/.Xauthority so I did.
> > The result was: export '/home/awp/.Xauthority': not a valid identifier
> > The next suggestion I found was to use the command '-d' which just did
> > not work at all because it was not recognized at all.
> > Then the next suggestion was to use xhost to verify that it is set to
> > permit connections from machine. The result was:
> > access control enabled, only autherized clients can connect
> > INET: localhost.localdomane
> > SI: localuser:awp
> >
> > Then the next suggestion I found was back to 'xhost +localhost' before
> > useing su to log in to root & then doing 'export DISPLAY=:0' aft loging
> > in as root. Well this did not work better that the last time I used the
> > command xhost +localhost.
> > Then I found another suggestion which is to use the command 'xauth merge
> > /home/awp/.Xauthority'
> > The result:
> > xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority
> > xauth: creating new authority file /home/awp/.Xauthority
> > xauth: (argv):1: merge: unable to open file /home/awp/.Xauthority
> >
> > So none of the suggestions seem that I could find seemed to work for me
> > & the last suggestion was to uninstall & reinstall X. I did not want to
> > do this so I started thinking & recalling what exactly I did before this
> > issue occurred. Other than installing DVD & mp3 support I was messing
> > with xnest attempting to open GDM in a nested window so that I could
> > graphically login as root via my user account. So I uninstalled
> > xorg-x11-server-xnest but that did not resolve my issue.
> >
> > Then I remembered that I had changed my intel integrated graphics driver
> > from the  'Intel - Experimental mode setting driver for Intel integrated
> > graphics chipsets' to  the 'i810 intel integrated graphics chipset
> > including i810, i815, 830m, 845G, 852GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945GM'. So I
> > switched the graphics driver back the the 'experimental' driver. That
> > did not work either.
> >
> > Then I had found a file /root/.bash_history which contains the history
> > of bash commands made in the terminal. A series of commands that I had
> > entered jarred my memory. I was attempting to get another desktop
> > manager installed call Enlightenment & int the process one of the
> > dependencies was XFree86. When I attempted to install XFree86  it
> > required several directories to be created: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir and
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth so I had created those directories. And that is
> > when thiss issue started occurring.
> >
> > SO THE SOLUTION TO MY ISSUE: was to delete /X11R6/bin/xauth & /mkfontdir
> > in the /usr directory.
> > Now I am able to use su root to login as root from my user account once
> > again so that I can use programs that require root.
> >
> > Thanks for all the attempts to help me.
> >
> You didn't install XFree86 from an RPM, did you? Both Xorg and
> XFree86 are X server packages. As you have discovered, they do not
> co-exist too well together. You may discover other strange problems
> down the road. It all depends on what files from Xorg were replaced
> with files from XFree86, and how they differ. Xorg was forked off of
> XFree86 when the licence for the XFree86 package was changed, and
> from what I have read, most of the developers moved to the Xorg, and
> development on XFree86 ground to a halt. You may be better off in
> the long run to re-install the Xorg packages after removing XFree86.
> (It is possible to use rpm to install an already installed package
> again, but I do not think yum supports it.)
>
> Mikkel
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Diolch yn fawr, Ashley
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