On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 06:03:31 -0500
"William Evanson" <evawil823@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I run freeBSD 4.3 and installed Xfree86 4.2 from source.
[...]
> [1] When I restarted my box
> [2] and ran XDM
> [3] and tried to login I got this error message in the xdm-errors log
> file in my home directory.
^^ ^^^^
>
> xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> xlib: No protocol specified.
> Error: cannot open display: :0.
This is very peculiar. If you rebooted, xdm should have started up (and
started the X server) automatically. It should also have written its
log file in /var/log/xdm-errors. Did the X server start, or not? Did
you log in at the graphical login screen put up by xdm (a graphical
screen with one window that shows the host name of the box and two
fill-in-the-blanks, "Login:" and "Password:"), or not? Did all the
configurations files in /etc/X11 get installed right, particularly in
/etc/X11/xdm? Did you change anything under /etc/X11?
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