Re: Report on X

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>]

   From: "Frederico S. Muñoz" <fsmunoz@sdf.lonestar.org>
   Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:03:29 +0100

   ----- Original Message -----
   From: "Steve Bowman" <sbowman@frostwork.net>
   To: <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
   Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM
   Subject: Re: Report on X


   > login as sbowman
   > ps works
   > su works
   > startx fails
   > su now fails ("Killed")
   > ps now fails ("Killed")
   >
   > and now many other things seems to be failing, like ping.  ls is one
   > thing that still works.  Logging out and back in again seems to reset
   > the situation, a reboot isn't required.
   >
   > The output of startx is:
   > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 1073741826
   > which repeats until interrupted.
   >
   > I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs.
   > Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability?

   I am; the command failures don't happen to me, but when starting X with a
   non-privileged user I get that error.

Looks like some authetication problem.  What does `ids' report before
and after startx?

Mark