From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 17:47:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5F837B516 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA48732; Sat, 13 May 2000 20:47:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 20:47:11 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jonathan Belson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0 Message-ID: <20000513204710.B48538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <391DED92.8A961AE2@dookie.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <391DED92.8A961AE2@dookie.demon.co.uk>; from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:04:34AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:04:34AM +0000, Jonathan Belson wrote: > Hiya > > > 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? > > As root I get > > Xwrapper: no modules loaded for 'xserver' service. > > The only way I can start X is by typing 'X' as root, then running an > xterm via my user account. > > ANy idea what the problem is? Did you rebuild X at some point? Did you build X with PAM support? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message