Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:49:20PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:41:22PM -0600, Cheng H. Lee wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> > <snip>
> >
> > For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> > Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set
> > to "anybody"
>
> Are you sure about that? That would certainly be a change from previous
> versions of X. Mine says rootonly and gdm works fine...
Yes...don't know about the reasoning behind the change. On my machine, it's
set to "anybody" to allow me to run gdm and use startx. If it's set to
"console", gdm doesn't seem to work; setting it to "rootonly" prevents me
from using startx. Also, I had a problem about gdm not respawning the X server
properly after logging out when it was set to "rootonly". "anybody" seems to
be the only option that allows me to do both. YMMV.
Cheng
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