Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:30:40 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Mike Knoll <knollm@lafcol.lafayette.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM Message-ID: <19980924103040.M12188@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199809240458.AAA18719@lafcol>; from Mike Knoll on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:13:17AM -0400 References: <199809240458.AAA18719@lafcol>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 01:13:17AM -0400, Mike Knoll wrote: > I built XFree86, and can run xinit to start an X session. I tried to login > using XDM, and I get the error in my .xsession-errors: > > Xlib: connection to "0:0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 > > My guess is this is because the cookie uses DES, and when I installed > freebsd, I selected not to install DES. > > Am I correct? And if so, how can I build in support for DES? I don't think DES is your problem -- I've never installed it and my xdm works just fine. How are you starting xdm? And did you change any of its config files? What's in your .xsession? >From the error message it looks as though xterm is using a different authorisation cookie to the one expected by the server. IIRC, the default xdm config starts the X server with an authorisation file buried somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authfiles. If you're trying to use your own authorisation file (eg. with an XAUTHORITY variable pointing to ~/.Xauthority) then you will have problems. Probably that is what's happening. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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