On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:31:10AM -0500 or thereabouts, mike polniak wrote: > Rino Mardo wrote: > > i've gone thru the faqs and the X files (xfree86 docs) but i can't seem to find > > out why i would get this error message when i want to start X: > > > > rino@buzz:~$ startx -- -bpp 32 > > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > Check allowed users in /etc/X11/Xserver and Xwrapper.config thanks. that /etc/X11/Xserver file is the problem as there were some paragraph there from a man page it seems and it fsck up everything. i removed the offending paragraph and now i'm in X. just how that paragraph got in there i'm still checking. -- Key fingerprint = 9DE1 5825 77B4 FF45 7485 D3EB DCCF DE48 09B6 4426 -------------------------------------------------------------------- And a few words from our sponsor: Q: Minnesotans ask, "Why aren't there more pharmacists from Alabama?" A: Easy. It's because they can't figure out how to get the little bottles into the typewriter.
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