From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 10: 2:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail11.jump.net (mail11.jump.net [207.8.124.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D45DC37BDE9 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 10:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kweiss@jump.net) Received: from kamui.animeniac.com (ns.animeniac.com [216.30.96.14]) by mail11.jump.net (8.9.0/) with SMTP id MAA09106; Sun, 14 May 2000 12:02:54 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0 From: Kevin Reply-To: Kevin In-Reply-To: <20000513204710.B48538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: <0003677ee21f1db2_mailit@smtp.jump.net> References: <391DED92.8A961AE2@dookie.demon.co.uk> <20000513204710.B48538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:06:27 +0000 X-Mailer: BeatWare Mail-It 2.0.4 X-BeOS-Platform: Intel or clone X-Priority: 3 (Normal) To: jon@dookie.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Jonathan, Chris has the right idea--maybe PAM is your problem. I just had a similar problem with X not reading my .xsession file. I did a 'make reinstall' for XFree86 and made sure to say "NO" to the question about PAM support (the last question, I think). This solved my problem and I think it'll take care of your problem also. Kevin Weiss kweiss@jump.net >On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:04:34AM +0000, Jonathan Belson wrote: >> Hiya >> >> >> Since I upgraded my 3.4-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE, I've had some problems >> starting X. >> When I type 'startx' or 'xinit' I get the error >> >> AUthentication failed - cannot start X server >> Perhaps you do not have console ownership? >> >> As root I get >> >> Xwrapper: no modules loaded for 'xserver' service. >> >> The only way I can start X is by typing 'X' as root, then running an >> xterm via my user account. >> >> ANy idea what the problem is? > >Did you rebuild X at some point? Did you build X with PAM support? >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message