From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 20:39:19 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 D77CF37BBEA for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:39:13 -0700 (PDT) (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 XAA31889; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:39:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:39:03 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X failure - through startx Message-ID: <20000411233903.C31270@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from tracker@worldy.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:12:08PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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