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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:31:53 -0500 (EST)
From:      Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X won't run after upgrade
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000310092306.23534B-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000309231719.D80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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I did as Mark Owens said. I did a rebuild and said no to compile with PAM
support. After this it worked fine. What is PAM anyway, why doesn't it
work with FreeBSD? Thanks for the help.

-Sandip

On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:12:58AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Sandip Srivastava wrote:
> > > I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.6 using the port. After the port was installed, 
> > > I rebooted my pc and ran 'xf86config'. Then I typed 'startx' at the prompt
> > > and got the following error:
> > > 
> > > Xwrapper:  no modules loaded for 'xserver' service
> > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > > 
> > > I ran 'startx' as root and as a regular user, and still got the same
> > > error. I also used 'XF86Setup' for configuration. I'm at a lost what do.
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > 
> > 
> > Arghh! yes , I fell into that one myself. When you built XFree you
> > answered "yes" to the question asking if you want PAM support.
> > Re-build it, answering "no" to the PAM question and the problem will
> > disappear.
> > 
> > FWIW, I read on one of the lists that PAM is broken (it fails to link
> > in a library), I assume that this is the root of the problem.
> > 
> > #include <disclaimer.h>
> > 
> > The statement that PAM is broken is just my understanding of it, I
> > maybe wrong, I don't fully understand all this crypto stuff :(
> 
> I'm not to sure of that. What does your /etc/pam.conf look like,
> Sandip? Is there and entry for the xserver?
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com
> 



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