From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 17:12:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA8D37B886 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA80530; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:17:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:17:10 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Sandip Srivastava Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Message-ID: <20000309201710.A80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6 using the port. After the port was installed, > I rebooted my pc and ran 'xf86config'. Then I typed 'startx' at the prompt > and got the following error: > > Xwrapper: no modules loaded for 'xserver' service > Authentication failed - cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > > I ran 'startx' as root and as a regular user, and still got the same > error. I also used 'XF86Setup' for configuration. I'm at a lost what do. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. You built X with PAM? FreeBSD does not have the PAM modules that X is trying to use. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message