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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 09:11:00 +0000
From:      Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
To:        cjclark@home.com, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with X after 3.4 -> 4.0
Message-ID:  <391E6DA4.98990D08@dookie.demon.co.uk>

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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > Since I upgraded my 3.4-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE, I've had some problems
> > starting X.
> > When I type 'startx' or 'xinit' I get the error
> > 
> > AUthentication failed - cannot start X server
> > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?

> Did you rebuild X at some point? Did you build X with PAM support?

No, I upgraded directly from the 4.0-RELEASE CD.  It looks like Xwrapper
isn't working properly but I can't find any detailed docs for it.


C-YA
Jon

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