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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 14:54:11 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Kevin <kweiss@jump.net>
Cc:        jon@dookie.demon.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0
Message-ID:  <20000514145410.C50543@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <0003677ee21f1db2_mailit@smtp.jump.net>; from kweiss@jump.net on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:06:27PM %2B0000
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 12:06:27PM +0000, Kevin wrote:
> 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.

Are you guys telling us that the XFree86 distribution that comes with
4.0 CDROMS has PAM builtin? I would expect to be flooded with these
problems if that is the case.

> >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
> >
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