If this is the case. Check if .Xauthority belongs to the user. If not
delete
>
> That means that you're not the one who logged in with that console...
> you must have done an 'su' or something... Login as the user you want to
> run 'startx' for
>
> On 06 Jun 2001 20:54:04 -0600, Ivan Kerekes wrote:
> > After upgrading XFree to 4.1 level I can't start X
> > I am getting
> > Authentication failed - cannot start X server
> > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > -after about 30 seconds-
> > giving up
> > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error.
> >
> > After trying a couple times I decided on a fresh reinstall, this is a no-go
> > as well, on Alt F3 I got the following error messages:
> > Trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as ramdisk
> > reading compressed ramdisk: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC
> >
> > Anyone get this?
> > Thanks:
> > Ivan Kerekes
> >
>
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