[ale] Authentication failed and ssh_host_key

[Dow Hurst]

The X startup scripts are divided into parts that run as root and then
pass control to the user to complete the rest of the scripts.  Sounds
like you aren't getting the console passed to you and the Xinitrc script
can't run.  So look in the X startup info for the exact procedure that
the scripts use.  You probably don't have permissions on something set
right in the X startup scripts.  Or the console on login is not released
to you as a user but is still owned by root.  I just guessing based on a
problem I was working on and some docs I read.  SuSE has in their help
files a little run down on X startup and how the scripts run.
Dow

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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