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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 01:09:15 -0600 (CST)
From:      Gene Harris <zeus@tetronsoftware.com>
To:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: X server difficulties
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002110107430.79435-100000@tetron02.tetronsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000211070302.A70178@sr.se>

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Ahhh, but did you also copy the new pam.conf from
/usr/src/etc back to /etc?  I seem to recall that this might
be necessary in a previous post to you.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Gunnar Flygt wrote:

>  On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 04:50:13PM -0600, Gene Harris wrote:
>  > Try adding the following line to your pam.conf file, in
>  > /etc.  If you answer "YES" to building the port with pam,
>  > then you have to have it configured properly.
>  > 
>  > # Don't break startx
>  > xserver auth    required        pam_permit.so
>  
>  I had the same problem. This didn't help! I recompiled the port saying
>  NO to using PAM. Then it started working.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > *==============================================*
>  > *Gene Harris      http://www.tetronsoftware.com*
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>  > 
>  > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Scott A. Moberly wrote:
>  > 
>  > >  I attempted to rebuild the XFree86 server in the ports
>  > >  collectino last night.  After a successful rebuild I get
>  > >  the following error:
>  > >  
>  > >  Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
>  > >  Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
>  > >  giving up.
>  > >  xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X server
>  > >  xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
>  > >  
>  > >  So, it seems that something was not successful...
>  > >  
>  > >  The following message also appears to root:
>  > >  
>  > >  Xwrapper: no modules loaded for `xserver' service
>  > >  
>  > >  Any suggestions?
>  > >  
>  > >  Salut
>  > >  sCOTT
>  > >  
>  > >  
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