On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:49:32AM -0700, selvi jay wrote: > Today morning i came across an error message when I > start Xwindow. error message viz., > > authentication failed - cannot start X server. > Perhaps you do not have console ownership ? giving up.
This is NOT an xinit message. If you are entering "X" through xdm/ kd/ gdm, then disable them by changing runlevel to 3 in /etc/inittab ... and boot through startx. If the problem has come with startx, then go through the startx script, and try to locate the portions where this has arisen. To know if the problem is in the pre-load stages, run xinit directly from your tty. If it works, your "startx" script needs a bit of touching up ... > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to > connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. > This is the first time, I have heard of such a problem. Hopefully you have some free ttys left (in case you have extended beyond the default 6 by altering your inittab). Another unlikely thing which can cause this sort of thing is deleting/ altering entries/ permissions or major, minor numbers in /dev/ttyN. Can't think of anything else .... Bish. -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Stripping the kernel LOST #054 GNU strip removes all symbols from object files. The kernel can also be stripped to reduce size, but NOT advocated. There is no increase in speed ... OTOH, some utilities depend on the presence of kernel symbols to operate (ksymoops, modutils etc) ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
