From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 27 16:28:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7519915291 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 16:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA18539 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:28:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:28:02 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: troubles with X Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I just rebooted my -current box for the first time in a long time. Everything on this box is freshly compiled (including X) as of only a couple of hours ago. I even mergemaster'd for good measure. For some reason now I can't startx(1) as either myself or root. I type startx and the PAM auth routines loop forever printing out 'Password:'. I comment out the last two lines in /etc/pam.conf and I get an authentication failure (as I should). Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What is the correct method to start X on -current nowadays? Thanks. -steve PS: I'd search the mailing lists but I can't get to my browser and I'm not so good with lynx. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message