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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>
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Subject: Re: X failure - through startx
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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.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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