Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[Ted Lin]

The only possibility out of the listed that I think could have occurred was
that xserver-common was purged at some point after the etch upgrades.

Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[Brice Goglin]

tags 406061 moreinfo
thank you



I don't see how your Xwrapper.config could have been removed with the
current preinst/postinst scripts in x11-common. Do you have some
Xwrapper.config.dpkg-*?

I wonder whether you had this file right before the upgrade. x11-common
postinst does not recreate one if it does not exist before the upgrade
(it assumes the user removed it on purpose). The file was part of the
xserver-common package in sarge. Is there any chance this package got
purged? or the Xwrapper.config file got removed before the new
x11-common got installed? did you ever modify/remove it by hand?

Brice



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Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[Olaf Zaplinski]

Hi,


Olaf, you got no /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config at all after upgrading
x11-common? Or an empty one?


I do not remember, this is more than 3 months ago...

> Do you remember seeing any error in the

postinst script output?


I got several errors AFAIK which seems to be normal for a dist-upgrade. But 
I cannot tell if one was from x11-common, sorry!



Did you guys have space available on your hard drive?


Plenty.


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Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[Ted Lin]

In my case, I had no Xwrapper.config at all; plenty of space.

kitlann, what did you get? an empty Xwrapper.config? a file containing a

wrong allowed_users= line?

Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[Brice Goglin]

Hi,

Olaf, you got no /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config at all after upgrading
x11-common? Or an empty one? Do you remember seeing any error in the
postinst script output?

kitlann, what did you get? an empty Xwrapper.config? a file containing a
wrong allowed_users= line?

Did you guys have space available on your hard drive?

Thanks,
Brice



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Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting"

[kitlaan]

I had the same problem. Running "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common" caused the
Xwrapper.config file to be regenerated.

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Bug#406061: "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting" -> /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config missing

[Zaplinski, Olaf]

Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-9
Severity: critical
Justification: X is only usable by root after upgrade from sarge

I just dist-upgraded from sarge to etch and could not start X as a normal
user, only as root. Creating the file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config with one line
containing "allowed_users=console" helped.