If it's simply an access control problem you can disable access control with "startx -- -ac" Mark. On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mo Morsi wrote: > Hello; > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > > Also, I just would like you to know that I've exhaused all my resources, incluing linuxquestions and google/linux as well as fiddling around. > > Running: Red Hat 8 > > Ok the X display will not show at all, that is when I hit ctrl-alt-f7 I get a blank screen. But I can press ctrl-alt-f[1-6] and get a terminal. So I log onto the terminal type startx and get: > > =========================================== > Fatal server error: > Server already running for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. > Please report problems to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by sever > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. > xinitd: unable to connect to X server > xinit: no such process (errno 3):Server error > > ============================================== > > So then I type startx -- :1 to see if I can get X working on an alternate display.... i cant. I switch to ctrl-alt-f8 and I get the black screen, I switch back to the terminal and see that it cant open the display. > > But in the midst of some errors I see the log file is /var/log/XFree86.1.log > > So I view this (as well as XFree86.0.log) and find the error: > > ============================================== > Audit: Tue Jun ...: 983 X: client 4 rejected from local host Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 > =============================================== > > This error appears in both log files, multiple times. > > I checked my /etc/X11/XF86Config file, and all looks well (I have not touched this file in a while). > > I have tried other solutions including killing all X-processes, rebooting, deleting /tmp/X0.lock, and a buch of other stuff that I forgot. > > One final note, I believe that the last this I was doing before the 'crash' was fiddling around with the automounter. But while trying to find the solution to this problem I disabled automount from staring up by placing a '.' in front of the file name in the rc5.d directory, > > e.g. .S29Autofs > > Therefore essentially 'blinding' the startup rc file to see this. > > Im all out of Ideas and need help Once again I appreciate all the help I can get. I have been running RH8 for a couple of months now and am starting to get comfertable with linux but I am no where near gurudom, so all help is appreciated. > > Thank you so so so so so much; > Movitto > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
