'Partial' X upgrade, now locked out of X server

From: Paul A. Hoadley (paulh_at_logicsquad.net)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:22:15 +0930
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    Hello,

    It looks like I have upgraded parts of XFree86 while installing some
    other ports, and I now seem unable to make even local connections to
    my X server. I must admit, X is something I set up years ago on this
    machine, and have just set and forgot---as such, I do not even have a
    good appreciation for what information might be useful for people to
    help me debug this.

    The machine was originally running one of the early 4.X releases, and
    that is when X was installed. It's now running 4.8. The following
    have been installed recently:

    drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 26 01:28 XFree86-clients-4.3.0_6/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 26 01:29 XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Feb 26 01:30 XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0/
    drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 28 19:36 XFree86-libraries-4.3.0_6/

    I usually login via xdm, started as root with 'xdm -nodaemon &'. I am
    currently unable to log in as a non-root user, and I get the following
    in ~/.xsession-errors when I try:

    Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
    Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
    twm: unable to open display ":0"

    I presume this has something to do with access control, but I've never
    needed to set up anything for local access before.

    While I am keen to get suggestions on how to correct this access
    control glitch, I would be happy to fully upgrade X if that's
    recommended. Somewhat embarrassingly, I'm not even sure how this
    should be done---via ports? 

    -- 
Paul.
mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net

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