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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 14:12:44 +0200
From: Dan Look <dan@electriccheese.com>
To: mikenoc@mindspring.com
Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: x windows fatal server error when not root
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Hi,

I think you need to install the X wrapper from ports from
/usr/ports/x11/wrapper

Just in case you're not familiar with the ports tree
(as root)
#cd /usr/ports/x11/wrapper
#make install clean

After that startx should work as a regular user.

Let us know how you get on

Dan


On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 07:35:43 -0400
<mikenoc@mindspring.com> wrote:

>  When I am root I can run x windows but when I am
> not root I get the following error. Not sure
> how to fix this one any advice would be great.
> 
>   Thanks in advance,
> 
>      Mike
> 
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "frogger.nuggie.net:0" in "list" command
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "frogger.nuggie.net:0" in "add" command
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.
> 
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