Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:49:49 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: "Clay Daniels Jr." <clay.daniels.jr@gmail.com>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 13.0 Current - r350702 exposed a Xorg failure Message-ID: <8b73d162-e293-2ead-b6b0-b79325b24346@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGLDxTV6gN4qsYcQHXcuQ2_-X3rko1DkbyYLyH3DU9_iryoqSg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGLDxTV6gN4qsYcQHXcuQ2_-X3rko1DkbyYLyH3DU9_iryoqSg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/9/19 8:56 PM, Clay Daniels Jr. wrote: > I was eager to load the new 13.0 Current snapshot yesterday as I wanted to > play with the new FUSE tools. I was running 13.0 Current r350491 from last > week and everything was going great. So last night, a little late I guess, > I wiped the older install and loaded r250702. Then I loaded Xorg, all 172 > packages, and loaded the drm-kmod video driver kernel modules, and then ran > startx (as user of course). I got errors & it was late so today I looked > closer. It said: > "xauth: file .serverauth.1039 does not exist" > > Well, this file is apparently something created automatically. I played > with the half-running install for a long time. It ran fine in console mode. > Then I the wiped it and reloaded the same newer r350702. No Go. > > Wiped the new r350702 and reloaded the older r350491 that was working just > fine last night. Same Problem....serverauth.xxx > > Now, I do know that the drm-kmod was the same (g20190710) that had worked > for me at least two times already. I do not know if the Xorg pkg is the > same. I couldn't find a date other than "latest". I'm writing this email > from my Linux partition. first thing that comes to mind, did you make sure to add your user to the "video" group? this doesn't sound related though...this does sound like a local configuration issue. iirc when i ran into this problem in the past it was due to permissions, either a .serverauth file owned by root or a UID that no longer exists. -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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