[branden, you *need* to change the maintainer address to debian-x -- this is getting nuts. :]
Walter: the /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file needs to be updated. Change `root' to read `console' or `everyone' (or `everybody'?). * Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001207 20:20]: > ----- Forwarded message from Walter Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > From: Walter Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: /usr/X11R6/bin/X (xserver-common). > Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 20:09:53 -0800 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: none > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Branden, > > With yesterday's update of xserver-common_4.01-10_i386 > I can no longer run X with startx, which I always do. > > It yields the error message "X: user not authorized to run the X server, > aborting." > > I have narrrowed the change down to the one file /usr/X11R6/bin/X > which is packaged in xserver-common. If I replace that one file > with the previous version (4.01-9) the error goes away. > > Is this a deliberate change in authentication policy or just a bug? > If it is deliberate I need to know how to do the authentication > properly. > > Thanks for sharing your time and hard work with all of us out here! > > Walt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | A great work of art has never caused any > Debian GNU/Linux | social problems. Social problems are > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | caused by those trying to protect > http://deadbeast.net/~branden/ | society from great works of art. -- ``Oh Lord; Ooh you are so big; So absolutely huge; Gosh we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.''
