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Date:      Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:17:48 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Resolved -  4.0, startx, and PAM problems
Message-ID:  <20000305231748.A71212@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000305162158.A388@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:21:58PM %2B0000
References:  <20000305162158.A388@parish>

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On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:21:58PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Since u/g 3.4-STABLE -> 4.0 I can't start X:
> 
> 
> parish:/usr/marko{54}% startx
> Mar  5 16:15:30 parish Xwrapper: unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/pam_unix.so)

[snip]

> A message posted 25th Feb about the same problem got this reply:
> 
> 	Basically, PAM was built without a crypt library linked
> 	in.  When new is built with PAM support, it tries to access
> 	crypt in PAM.  Then, it blows up.  Build without PAM, or
> 	cvsup latest sources for the patch.  It was mentioned in
> 	the mailing lists I think back in December?
> 
> but I cvsup'd the source at 10:00 GMT yesterday (4th March).
> 
> The other option in the poster gave was to re-build the world
> withou PAM support, but that seems rather excessive.
> 

Doh! when I re-read this I realized that it meant re-build *XFree*
without PAM, not the *world*. I re-built XFree and it all works fine :)

> Does anuyone know of any other solution?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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