[rhelv6-beta-list] weird startx issue

[John Haxby]

On 1 July 2010 21:00, Gary Gatling <gsgatlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:

>
> I got an unexpected error:
>
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> [gsgatlin at vaporware ~]$ startx -- :1
> xauth:  creating new authority file /home/gsgatlin/.serverauth.3752
>
>
> Fatal server error:
> PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
>        Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
>
>
Are you perhaps logged in as different users on different virtual consoles?
  You'll get errors like this if, for example, you log in as root first on
one virtual console and then as yourself on a different one (the ownership
of the console doesn't change as you switch from console to console)

jch
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