[ale] Debian Sarge - no X unless root

James Sumners james at sumners.ath.cx
Sun Nov 16 00:54:40 EST 2003


I am not sure that "anybody" works correctly. You may want to try changing it.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:36:58 -0500
Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 November 2003 00:19, James Sumners wrote:
> > In your "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config" is "allowed_users" set to "console"?
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:25:20 -0500
> >
> > Jim Seymour <bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:00, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > > > I know I saw something about this same problem recently but cannot
> > > > locate it. My installation will not boot into X unless I select Debian
> > > > as the window manager and log in as root.  As user trying KDE I get the
> > > > following error:
> > >
> > > More correctly I should have said "My installation will not boot into X
> > > unless I select "Debian" as the session and log in as root."  The rest of
> > > the info in my prior post still applies.
> > >
> 
> Just check it.  It is set to "allowed_users=anybody".  Is that okay?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
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