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Subject: Re: Need help with Xwindows
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:28:58 +0200
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whats your system securety and is your user accounts in the wheel group ? 
im thinking the X will only start if you have it in a wheel group, and not in 
a regular group shuch as [username]
that is probley where the problem is try adding your account to the wheel 
group then restart the X server ;) 

On Tuesday 23 October 2001 20:23, Christopher T. Jewett wrote:
> I'm still having this same problem.  I can run X great as root, but trying
> to run it from my other accounts fails ever time with the same message.
>  BTW, FYI, I used /stand/sysinstall 's package file for XFree86 4.1.0.
>  I'm sure there's just a simple setting that has to be corrected in the
> /etc/X11 directory, but which it is, I haven't the faintest idea.  Does
> anyone have any suggestions for us?
>
> Chris
>
> ---- L C <boricuafolife@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I am new to X windows and after installation I try to
> > start x windows
> > and this is what I get, when I type startx I get:
> >
> > xauth:creating new authority file /home/b/.xauthority
> > xauth:(argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command
> >
> > Fatal server error
> > cannot open log file "/var/log/xfree86.0.log"
> >
> > xinit:no such file or directory(errno2): unable to
> > connect to xserver
> > xinit:no such process(errno3): server error
> >
> >
> > HELP ME!!!!!!!
> >
> > P.S.  I carefully installed Xwindows but is this
> > telling me that I
> > didn't?
> >
> > HELP!  HELP!  HELP!
> >
> >
> >
> >
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