Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:17:10 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade Message-ID: <20000309201710.A80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000309200008.16512A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>; from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500 References: <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000309200008.16512A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>
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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
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