From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 22 21:28:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBB737B948; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 21:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA41089; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:16:05 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:16:04 +0600 (NS) From: Max Khon To: lioux@linf.unb.br Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.6 authentication failed? In-Reply-To: <20000223021000.A74659@Fedaykin.here> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 lioux@uol.com.br wrote: > I am running monday's current, Mesa-glx for Riva, XFree 3.3.6 and > KDE 1.1.2. All from monday's ports tree. > Well, I think I can't say I am running this system, for I am getting > the following message whenever I try startx: > > 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. seems that you have built XFree with PAM support. Just rebuild without PAM -- it's broken. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message