Bug 21728

Summary: KDE won't start with kernel_securelevel="2"; no warning of this is given when setting security level.
Product: Base System Reporter: buckshot70 <buckshot70>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.1.1-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description buckshot70 2000-10-03 17:00:00 UTC 
After changing the security level to "high" using /stand/sysinstall,
the following error is given when trying to start KDE 1.1.2:

Fatal server error:  xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (operation not permitted)

Fix: 

Edit /etc/rc.conf and set kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
How-To-Repeat: Install KDE 1.1.2, use /stand/sysinstall to set security level to
"high," and startx.
Comment 1 k 2000-10-04 20:36:20 UTC 
Hi
Actually this is not a problem with KDE but with XFree86.
Atleast with version 3.3.6 of XFree86 I do not know about 4.0.1.

/Johan K
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-10 11:31:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed