From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 6:20:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gisco.net (mail.gisco.net [207.51.163.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB5F137BE53 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsollish@mail.gisco.net) Received: from pequod.autogear.net [207.51.166.51] by mail.gisco.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id ADBE8460152; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:27:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:10:19 -0400 (EDT) From: George Sollish X-Sender: gsollish@pequod.autogear.net To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade woes In-Reply-To: <20000810.12595600@mis.configured.host> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 8/9/00, 1:26:19 PM, George Sollish wrote > 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 > 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 > something > > here, then continues] > > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 [repeats 4 > or > > 5 times] > > giving up > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to > X > > server > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error > > > > Dear George Sollish, > > I solved the problem by recompiling and reinstalling XFree86 (via the > ports mechanism). Also, I seem to remember that my pam.conf was indeed > correct, and yet the errors still occurred; I only got rid of them by > recompiling. > > Actually, I went much further: I recompiled all my ports :-) > > HTH, > Salvo Salvo, Thanks for the tip. I finally decided to rebuild -- it looked like about the same amount of energy ... George E Sollish Chief Engineer Auto Gear Equipment Host Classic-FM's Listening Room Project Manager The Payne Lake Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message