How to not run GDM as root?
Hello. I have that power policy popup message after suspending with gnome-power-manager.
And I've heard that it's becuse GDM runs as root. Any ideas?
You could try to start gdm manually from /etc/rc.local with
su - username -c "/usr/sbin/gdm"
and comment it out of /etc/inittab. If that works you could probably add it there instead.
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i am not able to run xscreensaver only in user
accounts but i am able to do in root(CDE is ok for
users) the message it is giving while logging in to
user accounts isNormally, xscreensaver does not run for the root
account. That's the way the code is written. You
could always grab the source code and modify it if
that's a hang up for you. If you are root and need a
screensaver try xlock.
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Workarounds:
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Root.sh script is not running successfully in RAC
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when i run root.sh script for RAC Grid installation. throws below error in screen.
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ohasd is starting
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Stop of resource "ora.crsd -init" failed
Failed to stop CRSD
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CRS-4000: Command Stop failed, or completed with errors.
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Stop of resource "ora.asm -init" failed
Failed to stop ASM
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CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'rac1' succeeded
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CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'rac1' succeeded
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"Configuration of ASM failed, see logs for details"
Did you look in the log files? Anything of interest in there?
Cheers,
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