Bug#362069: xbase-clients: xinit broken - X session doesn't start up

[David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net>]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:58:00AM +0200, Florian Cramer wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 1:7.0.0-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> After the upgrade to x.org 7.0.0 from 6.9.x, "startx" yields a default
> grey X11 screen with a mouse pointer, but no window manager gets
> started. ~/.xinitrc and /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager are not
> honored. After a while, the X server crashes with the message that xinit
> could start.
> 
> Apparently, the X server does not permit any clients to run. This is the
> tail output of /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> 
> AUDIT: Wed Apr 12 03:52:53 2006: 9528 X: client 1 rejected from local
> host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Wed Apr 12 03:52:55 2006: 9528 X: client 1 rejected from local
> host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Wed Apr 12 03:52:57 2006: 9528 X: client 1 rejected from local
> host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> AUDIT: Wed Apr 12 03:52:59 2006: 9528 X: client 1 rejected from local
> host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> F
> 
> [xdm was not used to start the X session.]

This sounds like your /etc/init.d/x11-common script isn't correctly
creating the necessary files to allow clients to connect to the server. Can
you run "/etc/init.d/x11-common restart" and get no errors?

 - David Nusinow