From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 17:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D48B037B886 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 14547 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2000 01:14:59 -0000 Received: from usercq35.uk.uudial.com (HELO parish.my.domain) (62.188.156.163) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 10 Mar 2000 01:14:59 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01374; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:14:55 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:12:58 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Sandip Srivastava Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Message-ID: <20000310011258.C245@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6 using the port. After the port was installed, > I rebooted my pc and ran 'xf86config'. Then I typed 'startx' at the prompt > and got the following error: > > Xwrapper: no modules loaded for 'xserver' service > Authentication failed - cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > I ran 'startx' as root and as a regular user, and still got the same > error. I also used 'XF86Setup' for configuration. I'm at a lost what do. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Arghh! yes , I fell into that one myself. When you built XFree you answered "yes" to the question asking if you want PAM support. Re-build it, answering "no" to the PAM question and the problem will disappear. FWIW, I read on one of the lists that PAM is broken (it fails to link in a library), I assume that this is the root of the problem. #include The statement that PAM is broken is just my understanding of it, I maybe wrong, I don't fully understand all this crypto stuff :( HTH > -Sandip > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message