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Re: Xconfigurator error
- To: ishaybas(at-nospam)netvision.net.il
- Subject: Re: Xconfigurator error
- From: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh(at-nospam)math.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:30:01 +0300
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: <01080512201007.01186@isommer.qa.checkpoint.com>; from ishaybas@netvision.net.il on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:20:10PM +0300
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2001, ishaybas@netvision.net.il wrote about "Xconfigurator error":
> While running Xconfigurator, after mouseconfig finishes, I get the following
> error:
> Xconfigurator: Critical error reading /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
> Xconfigurator: Check permissions of /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
> Xconfigurator: Also - make sure you are running this program as root
It looks like the error is quite self-explanatory: are you running
Xconfigurator as root?? (you should). is /etc/sysconfig/mouse readable for
all and and writable for root (do ls -l /etc/sysconfig/mouse)?
> When I try to run mouseconfig manually, it reports it cannot read
> /etc/sysconfig/mouse and requires to create a new configuration.
> That is all very nice, but again Xconfigurator can't read the
> /etc/sysconfig/mouse.
Again, are you running mouseconfig as root? If not, it can't write
/etc/sysconfig/mouse.
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