XDM Login Broken

[Net Llama]

--- Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> Okay, so I upgraded XFree and now I can't login using XDM (spare me
> the use KDM/GDM, please). I login without incident, the screen clears
> as if getting ready to start my session, and then I'm back at the
> login window. This happens for root and mortal users. I can use startx
> just
> fine, as root and as mere mortal.
> 
> From /var/log/xdm-errors:
> AUDIT: Sat Apr  6 20:32:44 2002: 587 X: client 2 rejected from local
> host
> 
> From $HOME/.xsession-errors:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0
> 
> Obviously, it's an authorization problem, but I'm not sure where to
> look. System is Slackware 8.0 with considerable modifications. X is
> 4.1.0, kernel is 2.4.18 (although I doubt this matters). I have a
> newly compiled XFree86 4.2.0 ready to go when I sort this out.
> 
> Any takers? 

Upgraded from which version of X?  I'd say install 4.2.0 anyway.  Why
waste time troubleshooting a problem with an older version?

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