From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 10:56:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yellow.rahul.net (yellow.rahul.net [192.160.13.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B55937B684 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhesi@rahul.net) Received: by yellow.rahul.net (Postfix, from userid 104) id 370EB7CA6; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Xfree86 : "Authentication failed" error Newsgroups: a2i.lists.freebsd-questions References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Message-Id: <20000407175608.370EB7CA6@yellow.rahul.net> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Rahul Dhesi (spam-filtered with RSS and ORBS) See my ORBS faq: http://www.rahul.net/dhesi/orbs.faq.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message