From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 1: 7:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CDE37B7A3 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from dookie.demonadsltrial.co.uk ([193.195.64.228] helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12qtQi-0004Ux-0K; Sun, 14 May 2000 08:07:16 +0000 Message-ID: <391E6DA4.98990D08@dookie.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:11:00 +0000 From: Jonathan Belson Reply-To: jon@dookie.demon.co.uk Organization: Jon's Place X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@home.com, "Crist J. Clark" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > Since I upgraded my 3.4-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE, I've had some problems > > starting X. > > When I type 'startx' or 'xinit' I get the error > > > > AUthentication failed - cannot start X server > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? > Did you rebuild X at some point? Did you build X with PAM support? No, I upgraded directly from the 4.0-RELEASE CD. It looks like Xwrapper isn't working properly but I can't find any detailed docs for it. C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message