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2005-Nov-26

Upgraded to latest CVS version of Xorg on NetBSD. Running X or startx (as long as not using /bin/sh) works to start X, but no window manager or clients start. The log shows several lines like:

AUDIT: Sat Nov 26 19:15:01 2005: 22394 X: client 1 rejected from local host
Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1

If running xdm instead, then this doesn't happen. xdm runs X like:

/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt05 -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-22756a

Saw that X.org's startx has a non-portable sh script:

dummy=$((dummy+1))
I reported this, but didn't check if fixed yet.

Upgraded to latest CVS version of Xorg (monolithic xc) on NetBSD/i386 2.0.2. Running X or startx (as long as not using /bin/sh) works to start X, but no window manager or clients start. The log shows several lines like:

AUDIT: Sat Nov 26 19:15:01 2005: 22394 X: client 1 rejected from local host
Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
If running xdm instead, then this doesn't happen. xdm runs X like:
/usr/X11R6/bin/X vt05 -auth /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-22756a
I was previously running Xorg 6.8.2 and I didn't have this problem (I started X with startx every time successfully). No changes in my start up (.xsession/.xinitrc).

After a reboot, later I didn't have this problem and startx worked.