[ale] Authentication failed and ssh_host_key

[James P. Kinney III]

The X problem sounds like a problem with the .Xauth file that each user
must have in their home directory. Often, the easiest solution is to
simply delet it and then rerun X. If a user has "su - <username>" that
new user will not be able to get Xauth permission as the pre-su user
owns the console. If the "-" was omitted, X can start as the su won't
parse the new users .<setup stuff>.

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 21:47, Swantje Willms wrote:
> Hi ALErs,
> I hope you can help me with a problem I have. I have made some google
> searches to find info, but nothing that seems to apply to my problem
> comes up.
> 
> When I try to do startx (as any normal user), I get the following error
> message:
> "Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have
> console ownership?"
> and a little later
> "giving up
> xinit: Connection refused (errno111): unable to connect to Xserver
> xinit: No such process (errno): Server error"
> 
> When booting, I get a failure here:
> "Could not load /etc/ssh_host_key check path and permissions".
> 
> Could the two be related?
> 
> I have checked and that file (ssh_host_key) is actually not there, but on
> my other machine it doesn't exist and that machine works just fine.
> /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key does exist.
> 
> Usually we run Linux (Redhat 7.0) all the time, but just before the
> problem started we burned our first CD under Windows. Could that have
> damaged something in the Linux partitions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Swantje
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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