Can you help me? When I run startx after loging onto my IBM IntelliStation running Linux the X system fails with this message. Fatal server error: PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership? When reporting a problem related to a server crash please send the full server output, not just the last messages to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxx Then a little while later it says: giving up xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno3): server error. I would be happy to send you what is asked for in the error message but I don't know what that is. This work station has been working happily for nearly a year and one day it just stopped letting any of the users run startx. Interestingly, root is able to run startx and once I have console window up as root I I have to type xhost + then su to my user name and get back to work in a fairly normal way. None of the users can execute xhost + until root has done it. Also interesting when any of the users execute XFree86 -version we get the same message as given above when startx fails. The version of XFree86 is 4.2.0 (Red Hat version 4.2.0-8). My version of Red Hat is 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp Thanks, Brian Fuller Brian Fuller Sterling Seismic Services, Ltd. 8122 Southpark Lane, Suite 207 Littleton, CO 80112 USA Phone 303.347.9011 Fax 303.347.9036 Cell phone 720.335.0881 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
