Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

SunPC may NOT run correctly as root

Cause

With SunPC 4.1 and the 102924 jumbo patch installed: when a user attempts to run SunPC, the following error message is displayed:


SunPC may NOT run correctly as root.
Please run in user mode.
SunPC script is exiting
Yet, the user is not root.

The user's primary group id is probably root. For example:


$ /usr/bin/id
uid=33650(gruff) gid=0(root)

Action

Change the user's primary group to another group, such as 10, and, the user still needs to be in teh root group, add the root group to the user's secondary group list.