Newbie at X Windows

[Andre Müller]

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Deepak Bhatia wrote:
| Hi,
|
| When I run xinit, I get the following message
|
| =====================================================
| [deepak at localhost bin]$ xinit
|
| Fatal server error:
| PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
|         Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
|
| Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
|          at http://wiki.X.Org
|  for help.
|
|
| Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
| Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

You should look at xhost, which is responsible
for access control. Prolly just turn it
off altogether with "xhost -" and then
work your way until it meets your paranoia :-)

The man-page is jolly good, btw.

Best, Andre

| giving up.
| xinit:  unable to connect to X server
| xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.
| =============================================================
|
| If I am the root then I get following message
| ==============================================================
| [root at localhost ~]# xinit
|
| \
| Fatal server error:
| Server is already active for display 0
|         If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
|         and start again.
|
|
| Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
|          at http://wiki.X.Org
|  for help.
| ============================================================
|
| Best Regards
|
| Deepak Bhatia
|
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