Re: [wsheets@att.net: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common).]
[branden, you *need* to change the maintainer address to debian-x --
this is getting nuts. :]
Walter: the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file needs to be updated. Change
`root' to read `console' or `everyone' (or `everybody'?).
* Branden Robinson <branden@deadbeast.net> [001207 20:20]:
> ----- Forwarded message from Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net> -----
>
> From: Walter Sheets <wsheets@att.net>
> To: branden@debian.org
> Subject: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common).
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:09:53 -0800
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> Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net
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>
> Hi Branden,
>
> With yesterday's update of xserver-common_4.01-10_i386
> I can no longer run X with startx, which I always do.
>
> It yields the error message "X: user not authorized to run the X server,
> aborting."
>
> I have narrrowed the change down to the one file /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> which is packaged in xserver-common. If I replace that one file
> with the previous version (4.01-9) the error goes away.
>
> Is this a deliberate change in authentication policy or just a bug?
> If it is deliberate I need to know how to do the authentication
> properly.
>
> Thanks for sharing your time and hard work with all of us out here!
>
> Walt
> <wsheets@att.net>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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