/usr/local/bin/X: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
Yuri Pankov
yuripv at yuripv.dev
Fri Nov 20 19:30:42 UTC 2020
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear kind folks,
>
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE on one of my
> machines, I get this error message. I had not seen this before
>
> xauth: file /home/olivares/.serverauth.47583 does not exist
>
> /usr/local/bin/X: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
>
> xinit: giving up
> xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
> xinit: server error
> olivares at eightcore:~ $
>
> I have created a file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and added
Xorg.wrap(1) says it should be /usr/local/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config (and
that works for me).
> allowed_users = anybody in that file Xwrapper.config.
> I have install xfce4 and when I launch xfce terminal or xterm, I get
> the same message. I can still do stuff from the shell but why do I
> get this message?
> I will be back next Monday 11/30 to this machine. So I will not be
> able to try the suggestions till that time. I also have not gotten
> java web start to work and it had worked great for me several years.
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