Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:10:19 -0400 (EDT) From: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrade woes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.10.10008100907430.323-100000@pequod.autogear.net> In-Reply-To: <20000810.12595600@mis.configured.host>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 8/9/00, 1:26:19 PM, George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net> wrote > regarding Upgrade woes: > > > > Good Morning! > > > I've been running 3.2R on a compaq i586-84 for a year and felt it was > time > > to move on to 4.0R, so I followed the instructions for a binary > upgrade > > which worked reasonably well EXCEPT: > > > (1) 'startx' (for root or user) fails with a series of messages: > > Xwrapper: no modules loader for 'xserver' service > > Authentication failed -- cannot start X server > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership? [prompts for > something > > here, then continues] > > X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 [repeats 4 > or > > 5 times] > > giving up > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to > X > > server > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error > > > > Dear George Sollish, > > I solved the problem by recompiling and reinstalling XFree86 (via the > ports mechanism). Also, I seem to remember that my pam.conf was indeed > correct, and yet the errors still occurred; I only got rid of them by > recompiling. > > Actually, I went much further: I recompiled all my ports :-) > > HTH, > Salvo Salvo, Thanks for the tip. I finally decided to rebuild -- it looked like about the same amount of energy ... George E Sollish Chief Engineer Auto Gear Equipment Host Classic-FM's Listening Room Project Manager The Payne Lake Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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