Re: Help needed with X

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Mathieu Segaud wrote:

> Hello,
> I bought an ibook this morning and install debian on it;
> but X just keeps me waiting :)
> I followed instructions in Jesus Clement's howto and here is what
> happened:
> I started xdm and it gives me the login screen, ok till there, but
> when i tried to login, it just restarts xdm.
> No user and no root login in X is enabled;
> in the logs it tells me
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> AUDIT: Mon Jun 30 17:00:00 2003: 11342 X: client 3 rejected from local host
>  Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Protocol not supported by server
>
> Error: Can't open display: :0
>  

Check /etc/X11/Xwrapper.conf; the line "allowed_users=" is probably set 
to something other than "console". You can change this file, but it'll 
likely get overwritten on the next upgrade, so you may want to run 
"dpkg-reconfigure xerver-common" which will present a question that will 
set this file.

Of course, if that's not the problem, I'm not sure what the fix is.

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Kent West (westk@acu.edu)