> > > I am unclear as to when this failure occurs. You are not having a user > run startx. That will have permission problems. You want to change Are you sure about that ? What if I don't want to run *dm, and if I don't want X to be started at boot ? It worked perfectly before the upgrade... Is it an X limitation, a pam limitation or a device ownership problem ? > /etc/inittab to have a default run level of 5 instead of 3 and I > believe all will be well. X will be started at boot and the user can > log in. It works as expected like that but I think it isn't really satisfactory. Pat