From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 5: 0: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEDA37B63B for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:59:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from LocalHost (212.141.79.55) by relay2.inwind.it; 10 Aug 2000 13:59:56 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:59:56 GMT Message-ID: <20000810.12595600@mis.configured.host> Subject: Re: Upgrade woes To: George Sollish Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 8/9/00, 1:26:19 PM, George Sollish 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