From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 15:17:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F72637BB1F for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 3816 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2000 23:17:28 -0000 Received: from userag73.uk.uudial.com (HELO parish.my.domain) (62.188.132.159) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 5 Mar 2000 23:17:28 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA71238 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:17:49 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:17:48 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Resolved - 4.0, startx, and PAM problems Message-ID: <20000305231748.A71212@parish> References: <20000305162158.A388@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000305162158.A388@parish>; from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:21:58PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > -- > Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? > Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? > BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? > -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message