Re: X problem - Xserver security setting
This did it - added Console to the file and it works
fine. Thanks.
Michael
--- Serge Rey <rey@typhoon.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:28:14AM -0700, Michael
> Dickey wrote:
> > I posted this to debian-user because I don't think
> > it's laptop specific, but have no response - maybe
> > someone here can help... I'm running potato on a
> Dell
> > Latitude CPi D266XT
> >
> > After upgrading to 2.2r3 I found that X would only
> > start in 800x600 mode. I tried running XF86Setup
> again
> > (maybe not the right way to go about fixing this?)
> and
> > successfully got all the way through the setup
> until
> > it started the Xserver with 1024x768 resolution
> and
> > saved the config file. I then tried startx, and it
> > didn't. What I got was:
> >
> > X: cannot read security setting from
> /etc/X11/Xserver
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =
> 111
> > giving up.
> > xinit: Connection refused (erron 111): unable to
> > connect to X server
> > xinit: No such process (erron 3): Server error
> >
> > /etc/X11/Xserver only has one entry - for the SVGA
> > server.
> >
> > I tried as root with the same errors. Booting into
> > Win2K gives me no problems.
> >
> michael,
>
> you might want to look at the following post:
>
>
http://www.csclub.stthomas.edu/~bugtraq/1998/msg00305.html
>
> as it speaks about a configuration file that lists
> who has permission to
> connect to the Xserver. the error message you got is
> contained in the
> source code towards the bottom of that listing.
> dunno if this is exactly
> the source of your problem, but it might help (i
> hope).
>
> s.
> --
> Sergio J. Rey http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/rey.html
> Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he
> should be drawn and
> quoted.
> - Fred Allen
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