Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:59:56 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade woes Message-ID: <20000810.12595600@mis.configured.host> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.10.10008090808380.304-100000@pequod.autogear.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.10.10008090808380.304-100000@pequod.autogear.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/9/00, 1:26:19 PM, George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net> wrote=20 regarding Upgrade woes: > Good Morning! > I've been running 3.2R on a compaq i586-84 for a year and felt it was = time > to move on to 4.0R, so I followed the instructions for a binary=20 upgrade > which worked reasonably well EXCEPT: > (1) 'startx' (for root or user) fails with a series of messages: > Xwrapper: no modules loader for 'xserver' service > Authentication failed -- cannot start X server > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? [prompts for=20 something > here, then continues] > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =3D 2 [repeats 4= =20 or > 5 times] > giving up > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to= =20 X > server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error Dear George Sollish, I solved the problem by recompiling and reinstalling XFree86 (via the=20 ports mechanism). Also, I seem to remember that my pam.conf was indeed=20 correct, and yet the errors still occurred; I only got rid of them by=20 recompiling.=20 Actually, I went much further: I recompiled all my ports :-) HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000810.12595600>