Re: X Authentication Problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

David A. Parker wrote:
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X 
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
>
> I have tried it both with and without the "DISPLAY=:0.0" at the 
> beginning.  Also, "startx" works as root.

I think at this point I'd rename mythtv's home directory and create a 
new blank one (make sure to get the perms correct on the directory), and 
try starting X then to see what happens.

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