On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 07:01:39AM -0700, Larry wrote: > Thanks for all the help in getting the update from Potato to Woody > working. > > Now the apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade routines have ran. > > What I'm left with is the following X-windows problems. > > 1) As a user, I can't get startx to bring up X because it says I'm not > authorized. I tried: auth add :0 . `mcookie`, which created a > .Xauthority file, but I still get the message: X: user not authorized > to run the X server, aborting. dpkg-reconfigure xfree86-common or edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config so that it says allowed_users=console amongst other things. > 2) If I try to run startx as root, I get: Fatal Server Error: could > not open default font 'fixed' Install x-window-system-core, it Depends on all the basic X stuff. You'll want a window manager and such, too. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: AFSPC dictionary Cocaine Watergate lock picking
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