No protocol specified

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Sunday 13 of March 2005 22:17, Don Lawrence wrote:
> Hi.  Rookie here doing a first time install of the latest version
> of freeBSD.  Everything going ok by the book until I try to
> log into X.  Install & configure successful
> Upon loging in, the login screen reappears, sometimes saying incorrect
> account.
>
>
> error message in .xsession-errors is:
>  Xlib: No protocol specified

How do you login into X (running startx or some display manager)? What 
session/window manager do you run?
Perhaps you don't have hostname of machine set - see 
http://frontrangebsd.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2005-March/010483.html


Dejan