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Date:      Sat, 04 Mar 2000 16:20:24 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X Won't Run After Upgrade
Message-ID:  <38C1A848.F0DB63B1@3-cities.com>
References:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000304191018.22362B-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>

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Sandip Srivastava wrote:
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 3.3. I installed the XFree86 3.3.6 port, because I
> wanted to upgrade from XFree86 3.3.5. After the port install finished, I
> typed 'startx' at the prompt to run X. But when I did this I got the
> following message:

I had the same problem. I rebooted and it went away. It was like there
were library links that went away. One of the comments in the README
was about rebooting. 

Kent

> 
> $ startx
> 
> Mar  4 19:03:40 atlantic Xwrapper: no modules loaded for `xserver' service
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:
> Can't conn
> ect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> What do I need to do to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> -Sandip
> 
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