From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 11 17:13:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A60737BABE for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from ppp117.WORLDY.COM (ppp117.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.168]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA14221 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:13:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:12:08 +0000 (GMT) From: David Banning X-Sender: tracker@tracker To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: X failure - through startx Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG following the installation of kde11 I get the following error when trying to execute startx; Authentication failed - Cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? Any pointers would be helpful. I wonder if permission plays a part here. I noticed during the installation of kde11 the make install was chmod'ing alot of 444's - that seems awfully restrictive. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message