HI all,
I'm new to the area and plan to attend the Dunedin
meeting. Somewhat new to Linux too, but have
experience on Unix variants, and most other common
systems. Ok, enough for short introductions.
It may be a total newbie guess here, but does not
being able to start X with a common user have anything
to do with granting common users "run as root" access?
--- Greg Schmidt <slugmail@gschmidt.net> wrote:
>
> Root can run X with startx. The three normal,
> mortal users get:
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
>
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> The ~/.Xauthority is a 63-byte file for root and
> zero bytes for the other
> three users. I think that's supposed to hold the
> MIT magic cookie.
>
> Putting "Perhaps you do not have console ownership"
> into google.com/linux
> found a bunch of stuff where others had the problem,
> but no answer. One
> of the most promising was to run startx --:4,
> startx --:5, and up. I
> think the idea was to start X on different ttys
> until you found one that
> would work. It didn't.
>
> It's Mandrake 9.0. I installed it about 36 hours
> ago, and it was working
> fine. I didn't like the fonts in OpenOffice, but it
> was working. I
> didn't care about the fonts in OpenOffice because
> the whole idea was to
> build linuxfromscratch next to it. LFS boots fine,
> it's just not very
> useful, yet. I had to compile the kernel again
> because I built it on an
> ext3 partition, (I guess the book uses ext2 for a
> reason.) and I skipped
> the LILO parts because I'm using GRUB. I also
> skipped the networking
> parts because I want to use dhclient instead of
> static addresses. (Ian
> Blenke likes dhclient; it must be fine. :) ) I
> also copied /etc/fstab
> off the base (Mandrake) install into the LFS
> partition and forgot to rem
> out some lines before I booted LFS the first two
> times but LFS's fstab is
> OK now. I had to go back and fix some stuff to get
> LFS straightened out,
> but I'm reasonably sure I was chroot'ed into it
> properly whenever it
> mattered.
>
> Other than that I didn't change a thing! :)
>
> Thought maybe I had buggered up /etc/password on
> Mandrake's partition
> while building the shadow and password files on the
> LFS partition, but
> I can still log in at the console. I haven't even
> downloaded X11 source
> onto the LFS partition yet, much less tried to build
> it.
>
> I found some references to
> /etc/security/console.perms, but I think the
> line:
> <xconsole> 0600 /dev/console 0600 root.root
> is how it should be. It's that way it is on the
> machines that work, like
> the one I'm using to write this.
>
> So LFS boots, but doesn't have a dhcp client, yet.
> I'll get around to
> that. Mandrake boots, and normal users can ping
> cisco.com, but only root
> can run X. That's a bother.
>
> How can I get normal logins running X again? What
> did I do to my Mandrake
> install?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg
>
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