From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 6:32:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alumni.umbc.edu (alumni.umbc.edu [130.85.60.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63E837B9E7 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu) Received: from localhost (ssriva1@localhost) by alumni.umbc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA23675; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:31:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:31:53 -0500 (EST) From: Sandip Srivastava To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X won't run after upgrade In-Reply-To: <20000309231719.D80084@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> 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 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 > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message