It also may be issues with udev permissions. I have similar issues with Xorg snapshots. $ grep -ni "null" /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules 168:KERNEL=="null", NAME="%k", MODE="0666" $ ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Sep 13 12:08 /dev/null Although your problem may be something else because those should be the defaults. Try running $ /sbin/udevstart as root, to restart udev settings. -Bryan On 15 Sep 2005, Isaac Atilano wrote: > It may be related to your groups. > I run Gentoo and my user id is in the following groups: tty wheel floppy > audio cdrom video games cdrw usb users. I can use /dev/null even though > the owner of it is root:root. > > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? > > ----- Original message ----- > From: bradyh at bitstream.net > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:15:42 -0500 (CDT) > Subject: [tclug-list] Gentoo Problems > > Just setup a new gentoo box and I'm running into permission problems. I > get an error when I log in as a regular user saying that I don't have > permission to access /dev/null. When I check.../dev/null is chmod 600. > I > can get rid of that error by chmodding it to 666 but it changes back any > time I reboot. > > Also I can't run startx unless I'm either logged in as root or set my > user > to have group root. But when I do that I can't start terminals in Gnome > - > it says "There was an error creating a child process for this terminal". > > Anybody seen this before? > > Thanks for any help, > Brady > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >