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Subject: Re: Installing on an IBM 600X - anyone tried it?
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"Mr. Ralph" <wildjeep01@yahoo.com> writes:

>   I installed FreeBSD 5.3 on an IBM 600X, and tried to get X started.  I get this error I can't really understand.  I'm going to type it below so maybe someone can point me in the right direction?  Thanks in advance everyone.
>  
> --Ralph
>  
> xauth:   creating new authority file  /home/ralph/.Xauthority
> xauth:  (argv):1:  bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
> xauth:  (argv):1:  bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
>  
>   and then X exits - what does this mean??

The source of the problem isn't visible there.
Look at the log file (probably created in /var/log/).