That means that you're not the one who logged in with that console...
you must have done an 'su' or something... Login as the user you want to
run 'startx' for
On 06 Jun 2001 20:54:04 -0600, Ivan Kerekes wrote:
> After upgrading XFree to 4.1 level I can't start X
> I am getting
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> -after about 30 seconds-
> giving up
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error.
>
> After trying a couple times I decided on a fresh reinstall, this is a no-go
> as well, on Alt F3 I got the following error messages:
> Trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as ramdisk
> reading compressed ramdisk: DATA_ERROR_MAGIC
>
> Anyone get this?
> Thanks:
> Ivan Kerekes
>
