Kent West wrote:
David A. Parker wrote:X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. giving up.xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X serverxinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the consoleI have tried it both with and without the "DISPLAY=:0.0" at the beginning. Also, "startx" works as root.I think at this point I'd rename mythtv's home directory and create a new blank one (make sure to get the perms correct on the directory), and try starting X then to see what happens.
Hmmm...
As root:
# mv mythtv mythtv.BAK
# mkdir mythtv
# chown mythtv:mythtv mythtv
# chmod 0755 mythtv
# su - mythtv
Then as "mythtv":
$ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 4096 Mar 7 12:55 .
drwxrwsr-x 5 root staff 4096 Mar 7 12:55 ..
$ startx
xauth: creating new authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
Using authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
Using authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
Writing authority file /home/mythtv/.Xauthority
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
xinit: Server error.
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
I tried this a couple of times and it consistently failed. The new
/home/mythtv/.Xauthority file it created was empty. I also tried using
xauth and mcookie to add new cookies, but it still didn't work:
mythtv@lipton:~$ startx
X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
xinit: Server error.
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
Even though it is not recommended, will setting allowed_users to
"anybody" in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config solve this?
Thanks!
Dave
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