Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Xfree86 : "Authentication failed" error Message-ID: <20000407175608.370EB7CA6@yellow.rahul.net> References: <freebsd-questions.007f01bfa093$58326e80$d1fa26c3@nugis.SOMEWHERE>
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I am trying to install XFree86 3.3.6 from the FreeBSD ports collection.
The 'make' and 'make install' appears to complete without errors.
But then when I type
startx
I get this output on the screen:
== begin output ==
Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
== end output ==
There is about a 30-second pause after "ownership"? appears in the
output above, and then the rest of the text appears, and then I am back
to the shell prompt.
Since I am invoking 'startx' while logged in as root, there should be no
console ownership problem. But just to be sure, I did already put a
line in /etc/fbtab that looks like this:
/dev/ttyv0 0600 /dev/console
(And I did try 'startx' while logged in on ttyv0.)
Also, I did a web search, and based on that, added the following
line into /etc/pam.conf:
xserver auth required pam_permit.so
Also, after a web search, I found that I needed to download a file
called Wraphelp.c. I did so, and I put a copy of that file in the
xc/lib/Xdmcp directory after I did 'make extract' and before I did the
'make' and 'make install'.
Are there other steps that I need to take? If anybody knows of a web
page that describes the step-by-step process of getting the Xfree86 port
to work, all in one place, I would apreciate a pointer to it.
Since I did what many people must be doing, i.e., going into
the x11/Xfree86 directory and typing 'make install', I wonder if
many other people are encountering the same problem.
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