I was just experiencing this same error. My roommate is on debian-users so I'll ask him if he has seen anything about this. Tim On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:13:18AM -0600, Jason J wrote: > Running Debian Woody. Finally decided to try the X 4.0.1 packages. > Installed them. Now i get the following error > > X: *user not authorized to run the X server*, aborting. > > I switched back to 3.3.6 and that same error is still there. So its > something independent of there configs. > Root has no problem start 4 or 3. I created a fresh user just as a test, > and that user gets the same error. Only root can start the server, but i > cant find where I can change that to allow all users. > > I got rid of the rootonly line in Xwrappers > I change the second line of Xsession to Anybody just to make sure. > > > Any help would be appreciated > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list