Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:39:03 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: David Banning <tracker@worldy.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X failure - through startx Message-ID: <20000411233903.C31270@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004112006280.318-100000@tracker>; from tracker@worldy.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:12:08PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004112006280.318-100000@tracker>
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:12:08PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > following the installation of kde11 I get the following error when > trying to execute startx; > > Authentication failed - Cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > Any pointers would be helpful. I wonder if permission plays a > part here. I noticed during the installation of kde11 the > make install was chmod'ing alot of 444's - that seems awfully restrictive. Sounds like XFree86 was built with PAM support. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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