From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 10:34:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA25909 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:34:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kryten.nina.com (dyn021-gnv.51.fdt.net [205.229.51.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25902 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (frankd@localhost) by Kryten.nina.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA15953; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:32:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Kryten.nina.com: frankd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:32:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Frank Seltzer X-Sender: frankd@Kryten.nina.com To: Jesse cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Windows has ceased to exist (sorta) In-Reply-To: <199608091702.KAA12785@m4.sprynet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Jesse wrote: > Hello! Sorry to bother you, but I have a real doozie of a problem > here. You see, FreeBSD seems to think that NONE of the files that > should be executable (such as /usr/X11R6/X, which DOES exist BTW), > are actually executable. Is /usr/X11R6/bin in your path? > I know what your thinking, oh, he didn't install correctly, well, > the thing is, I have checked and rechecked twice. EVERY file is > EXACTLY where it should be. They all are the correct size. In fact so > far I have re-installed twice (once using sysinstall, the other > manually.) > I have plenty of space, no errors (exept the X: command not found, > xstart : command not found, etc. etc. etc. In fact, as near as I can > tell, there isn't a single file thats executable anywhere in my X11R6 > directory. > > So far I have read both the handbook, the FAQ, and the X-Windows > readme three times through. I can find no reference to this problem. > I am using the Generic Kernel v2.1.5. > > > Jesse Brown (bextreme@sprynet.com) > > > Frank -- Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a draft dodger sleeps in the White House.