The new version of glibc properly implements putenv (that is, it puts
a pointer to the envionment variable into the environment, not a copy
of it.) gdm was doing a "putenv (foo); free (foo);". This corrupted
the XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY environment variables, making it impossible
for the gdm to connect to the X server.
This has been fixed in gdm-1.0.0-39.
Matt
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 08:05:42PM -0400, Nikolaos Margaritis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a PII rawhide system.
> Some days ago a strange problem appeared:
>
> When the system starts in telinit 5 mode all users (including root)
> can login from kdm, except one user. In this user's case the kdm prompt
> reappers.
>
> So, I thought lets isolate the problem. I did telinit 3. Having logged in
> as root no problem. But if I logged in as any other normal user and typed
> startx, (or xinit) the results was:
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:
>errno = 111
> giving up.
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> To make thinks as simple as possible I typed Xwrapper and the result was:
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
> Could it be some X bug, a pam bug, or is it due to some devious script which
> has been modifying permissions?
> (What is that about console ownership? I have checked the ttys. Their ownership
> is always appropriately set.)
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
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