From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 20:14:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F55637B8E6 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:14:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA81971; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:17:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:17:20 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mark Ovens Cc: Sandip Srivastava , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Message-ID: <20000309231719.D80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000310011258.C245@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000310011258.C245@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:12:58AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:12:58AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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 :( I'm not to sure of that. What does your /etc/pam.conf look like, Sandip? Is there and entry for the xserver? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message