From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 24 15:40:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C5B637B4D7 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 15:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (62.98.162.38) by relay2.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39CB097900864E21; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 00:39:39 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:41:07 GMT Message-ID: <20001024.23410700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: FRUSTRADED! Shoot me? To: mike Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20001024220654.20563.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20001024220654.20563.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/24/00, 11:06:54 PM, mike wrote regarding=20 FRUSTRADED! Shoot me?: Dear Mike,=20 Are you sure you have properly configured your system (mergemaster=20 step in /usr/src/UPDATING) ?=20 > whoah! I get a login prompt that says > FreeBSD/i386 (amnesiac) > Login: AFAIR, "Amnesiac" indicates that your hostname is not properly=20 defined/configured. This calls for a double or even triple check of=20 your whole configuration. > Ok, so now for the heck of it I login with my normal > user and attempt 'startx'. > I get the error message as both root/user > Authentication Failed - Cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? I saw this error a few months ago, when I upgraded to=20 4-(then)-CURRENT. Since my configuration files WERE correct, I simply=20 rebuilt XFree, and the problems faded away. HTH, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message