On Monday 11 December 2000 07:46, Lance Simmons wrote: > I recently started getting the following error message when I try to > run xinit as a user: > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > I've been running XFree86 4 for awhile (about 2 months before it > entered woody), and have never received this error message. I can't > remember, but it seems the error showed up about 3 days ago, right > after I upgraded several of the X packages. > > I can still run X as root, and can use xdm or gdm for users, but I > prefer starting it from the command line, so that I can quickly open up > an X session on another virtual terminal whenever I want. > > Any suggestions about what the problem might be? I would prefer to be > using potato, but vmware demands a later libc6 that's not in that > distribution.
Have a look at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config. Change the allowed_users from root to console (or anybody to use xdm/gdm etc.). HTH, jt
