Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:52:17 -0900 (AKST) From: pstern <pstern@ptialaska.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 4.2 problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101240651001.394-100000@jago.65north.com>
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Okay low level format the hard drive. Fresh install from 4.2 cdrom. This time I did not run the XF86Setup routine out of sysinstall. Logged in as root. Ran XF86Setup. The time the mouse actually configured correctly and I finished the configuration with no errors, ran vidtune accepted defaults, had it make the link for startx. As root tried to execute startx execv failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 (errno 2) _X11TranSsocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 This is repeated 6 times giving up xinit No such file or process errno2 unable to connect to X server xinit No such process (errno3) Server error X is linked to the svga server in /usr/X11R6/bin/ Xwrapper is installed I tried running xc86config, same result I'm baffled. This is the 4th failure now all on fresh installs. My complaint has more to do with mistakes like leaving out the system.fvwmrc files in FreeBSD 4.1 and not configuring kpanel and kfm to start up by default in KDE. The entire X situation just needs some more attention paid to preconfiguring various window managers. I can't believe how plain fvwm2 is as shipped. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, peter On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Christopher Farley wrote: > pstern (pstern@ptialaska.net) wrote: > > > I will try to do another install Tuesday night but I was using sysinstall > > to do the configuration initially and it sure looked like the old > > XF86Setup program to me. I also tried the older xf86config script with > > no luck. I'm not sure what you mean by build fonts during the install. I > > selected both the 75 and 100 dpi font packages for installation. I was > > under the assumption that the default install was XFree86 4.0.1 am I wrong > > and it installs 3.36? > > The base FreeBSD system includes XFree-3.3.6, not 4.0.1. > > Personally, I have a video card not supported by XFree-3, so I install > FreeBSD without X support, and then install XFree-4 from the ports. > > > I have never had to install the wrapper before to run X as nonroot. When > > did this change? I did not select it during the 4.1 install and I can run > > X without trouble as nonroot. > > XFree-3 ran setuid root, which is somewhat dangerous from a security > standpoint. In general, big complicated programs should not run as root. > If you install XFree4 from the ports, you will also need to install > Xwrapper if you plan to launch X from a console with "startx". > > Personally I like the way FreeBSD "integrates" X. I recently spoke to > a Linux user who had never seen a plain text console display. > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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