This is a known issue with XFree86 and devfs - please see our caveats
list at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/installcavs.html
for this and other problems you may experience.
The fix for your problem below is to edit /etc/security/console.perms
Change
# file classes -- these are regular expressions
<console>=tty[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]\.[0-9] :[0-9]
to
# file classes -- these are regular expressions
<console>=tty[0-9][0-9]* vc\/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]\.[0-9] :[0-9]
to add the vc/* devices to the access list.
Good luck,
- Eric Sandeen
SGI, Inc.
XFS for Linux
João Paulo Legat wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got the SGI-XFS-PR and installed from the ISO. Everything worked fine,
> except that I'm unable to run X with other user but root.
>
> The error says:
>
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> > Perhaps you do not have console
> > ownership?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> JP
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