[NBLUG/talk] XFree86 4.3 -- I'm trapped in an upgrade vortex!

[Dave Sisley]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:43:49PM -0700, Ron Wickersham wrote:
> 
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> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Dave Sisley wrote:
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> ---snip---
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> > AUDIT: Sat Sep  6 09:33:18 2003: 4002 X: client 5 rejected from local host
> 
> looking over the logs it appears that X server is starting ok...well you
> did report BSOW.
> 
> so i think it must be a red-hatism that the login client expects the
> X server to be something other than localhost (perhaps the hostname???)
> 
> a quick look in the Green Book (Evi Nemeth, et.al) shows the config
> file for initial X11 environment .xinitrc is replaced in red had with
> .Xclients.  so looking there might reveal something.
> 
> -ron

Looking in my /etc/X11/xinit directory, I see both an xinitrc and an Xclient
script.  As far as I know, the dot versions (.xinitrc & .Xclients) are 
supposed to live in the user's home directory, but I think my problem is more 
global.  By this I mean that I am not even given the opportunity to log in, 
so the system doesn't know which user dir to even look in.

I'm still stumped.

-dave.