can't start x as normal user.

[wonslung]

I can't seem to get X to start as a normal user, though it will start as root.
This is the error message i see.
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found. required by "xauth"

it shows that 7 times in a row.

[mfaridi]

go to this port directory and type

make deinstall clean && make install clean

/usr/ports/x11/libXau

[wonslung]

nope, didn't work.

like i said, i can startx as root but not as a user.

i'm thinking it's permission based but don't know how to fix it


i get the same error as before
when i do
ldd -a `which xauth`
as a normal user i get

/usr/local/bin/xauth:
libXau.so.6 => not found (0x0)
libXext.so.6 => not found (0x0)
libXmuu.so.1 => not found (0x0)
libX11.so.6 => not found (0x0)
libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800639000)

it should be finding those right?

[DutchDaemon]

Check the permissions of your home directory and all files in it, or just set them by using chown -R user:user /home/usr to make sure everything is owned by you.

[rocky]

Try


$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6

to see what went wrong.


You must ensure the readable permission for following directories and files:


/usr/
/usr/local/
/usr/local/lib/
/usr/local/lib/libXau*

[wonslung]

Check the permissions of your home directory and all files in it, or just set them by using chown -R user:user /home/usr to make sure everything is owned by you.


everything is owned by me.
first thing i checked
even deleted the user and remade him, no go

[wonslung]

Try


$ ls -la /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6

to see what went wrong.


You must ensure the readable permission for following directories and files:


/usr/
/usr/local/
/usr/local/lib/
/usr/local/lib/libXau*


-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15215 Jun 13 13:20 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6
ls -al /usr/
total 69
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 18 Jun 12 17:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 29 Jun 12 16:10 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 12 17:20 X11R6 -> /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 431 Jun 12 17:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jun 12 11:06 compat
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 16 Jun 12 16:01 games
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3 Jun 13 13:29 home
drwxr-xr-x 47 root wheel 244 Jun 12 15:59 include
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 477 Jun 12 15:59 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 507 Jun 12 16:01 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 5 Jun 12 15:59 libdata
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 62 Jun 12 15:59 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 16 Jun 13 10:08 local
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jun 12 15:48 obj
drwxr-xr-x 69 root wheel 80 Jun 12 16:45 ports
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 259 Jun 12 15:59 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 26 root wheel 26 Jun 12 15:59 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jun 12 15:52 src

ls -al /usr/local/
total 81
drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 16 Jun 13 10:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 18 Jun 12 17:20 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 659 Jun 13 08:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 7 Jun 12 17:30 build-1
drwxr-xr-x 26 root wheel 34 Jun 12 18:09 etc
drwxr-xr-x 112 root wheel 316 Jun 13 08:13 include
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 47 Jun 12 18:03 info
drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 14 Jun 12 17:09 kde4
drwxr-xr-x 41 root wheel 1297 Jun 13 13:20 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 3 Jun 13 10:08 lib32
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 9 Jun 12 17:20 libdata
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 47 Jun 13 08:08 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 29 root wheel 30 Jun 13 04:15 man
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 24 Jun 12 17:41 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 75 root wheel 75 Jun 12 18:09 share
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2 Jun 12 13:53 www



all the permissions are right...
this is frustrating.

[DutchDaemon]

Does ldconfig -r give you the same number of libraries as root and as the regular user?

[wonslung]

Does ldconfig -r give you the same number of libraries as root and as the regular user?

ldconfig -r
ldconfig: Cannot open "/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints": Permission denied
>

[DutchDaemon]

chmod 444 /var/run/*.hints as root. Then try again. Running /etc/rc.d/ldconfig restart is advisable as well.

[wonslung]

all of it was already 444
changed it anyways, no change.

[DutchDaemon]

Did you restart ldconfig as well?

[DutchDaemon]

Other things to try:

ls -ld /var/run
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1024 Jun 13 20:44 /var/run
cat -v /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
[binary crap]/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg:/usr/local/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib/nss[binary crap]\
file /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: data

[troberts]

Did you do anything to make your system more secure like adding kern_securelevel="3" in rc.conf?

[wonslung]

Did you do anything to make your system more secure like adding kern_securelevel="3" in rc.conf?

lol, no, i just installed 7.1 (it was the cd i had lying around) minimal, then did cvsup for 7-stable
i did rebuild world+kernel
installed Xorg
installed KDE4
thats' it

[wonslung]

Other things to try:

ls -ld /var/run
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1024 Jun 13 20:44 /var/run
cat -v /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
[binary crap]/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/compat/pkg:/usr/local/lib/compat:/usr/local/lib/nss[binary crap]\
file /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
/var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: data

ok, when i do ls-ld /var/run as a normal user i notice that it's got set to 0700
i'm guessing this is wrong.

did chmod 755 and now it's working, thanks so much.

i am noticing some slight 1 second freezes in kde4. Does anyone else have this issue?

[DutchDaemon]

I suggest you pose further KDE-specific question in the KDE forum.

[wonslung]

yes, i did post my new kde questions there, this was originally an X question though =)
sorry dutch

[DutchDaemon]

One original question per topic ;)

[wonslung]

yes sir.