From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 26 20:34: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grasshopper.sysconfig.net (netx-5.netxusa.com [216.105.137.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106BA14DE1 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 20:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spr@sysconfig.com) Received: from prg (ci147365-a.grnvle1.sc.home.com [24.8.1.129]) by grasshopper.sysconfig.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA68299 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:36:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spr@sysconfig.com) Message-ID: <000501bf5022$b06655b0$fbc9a8c0@sysconfig.net> From: "Sean Robertson" To: Subject: Problems running XFree86 from the ports system on 3.3.4 Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:27:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been using FreeBSD for some time now for servers, but decided to try KDE out on the platform as a workstation. I installed basic FreeBSD 3.3.4 and then installed XFree86 from the ports collection. When I try startx, I get the following error message: Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? The problem has something to do with the Xwrapper program that is used with the newer versions of XFree86. If I run Xwrapper directly I get the same error. I have tried this as a user, as su'ed user, and as root directly. Please reply to me directly as I am not part of this mailing list. Sean P. Robertson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message