From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 25 15: 6: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from heimdall.piqnet.org (adsl-63-197-64-194.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.197.64.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 202DD37BEBC; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.piqnet.org (adsl-63-197-64-195.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.197.64.195]) by heimdall.piqnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA12419; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.piqnet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA81841; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) X-Authentication-Warning: detlev.piqnet.org: joelh set sender to joelh@gnu.org using -f To: Max Khon Cc: lioux@linf.unb.br, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.6 authentication failed? References: From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:06:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of "Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:16:04 +0600 (NS)" Message-ID: <86hfewswz4.fsf@detlev.piqnet.org> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Followups to -current] >> I am running monday's current, Mesa-glx for Riva, XFree 3.3.6 and >> KDE 1.1.2. All from monday's ports tree. >> Well, I think I can't say I am running this system, for I am getting >> the following message whenever I try startx: > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server. > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 > seems that you have built XFree with PAM support. > Just rebuild without PAM -- it's broken. Could you give me a few more details about the brokenness? Thanks, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message