From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 30 14:33:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relativity.student.utwente.nl (wit389306.student.utwente.nl [130.89.234.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 128FA14C3B for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djb@Wit389306.student.utwente.nl) Received: by relativity.student.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 783A51DA7; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:33:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:33:27 +0100 From: "Dave J. Boers" To: Steve Price Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: troubles with X Message-ID: <19991230233327.A16271@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Reply-To: djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 06:28:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 06:28:02PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > For some reason now I can't startx(1) as either myself or root. > I type startx and the PAM auth routines loop forever printing > out 'Password:'. I comment out the last two lines in /etc/pam.conf > and I get an authentication failure (as I should). I'm having the same problem. Cvsupped and recompiled -current just a few hours ago. Then I recompiled X 3.3.5 and installed it. Now I can't start X anymore either. Lines containing "Password:" just keep scrolling over my terminal. The password lines are being generated by xinit. Just plain "X" works. > Anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? What is the correct > method to start X on -current nowadays? AFAIK you're doing it correctly. Can someone PLEASE help out here? It's getting a bit annoying. Regards, Dave Boers. -- djb@relativity.student.utwente.nl be afraid, . . . be *very* afraid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message