Glxgears and permissions

[John Horne]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 19:28 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Stanton Finley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:36 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>     Could someone please explain to me what this and how I get around it.
> >>
> >> [david at reddwarf ~]$ glxgears
> >> glxgears: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot 
> >> enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied
> >>
> >>    Thanks   david
> >>
Assuming you are using an ATI graphics card, take a look at
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=856

Comment 3 mentions using the chcon command:

  chcon system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t  /usr/lib/ati-fglrx/libGL.so.1

I did this, as root, and glxgears then worked.


John.

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