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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:15:30 -0500
From:      David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>
To:        Meredith <mmp237@yahoo.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I need help bad ly
Message-ID:  <01072707153001.00642@mutt.home.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com>

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A guess for me would be to check your /tmp directory you should have a 
directory with the following name and permissions:
drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel   512 Jul 27 07:02 .X11-unix 

The t on the end is a "sticky bit" and the chmod mask to use is the following;

as root:

chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix

I am not sure if any of this will actually help you or not but KDE uses 
another layer called .ICE [through qt most likely].  This is used for their 
DCOP server which is a wrapper around the basic X IPC services.  Because
your errors are showing an inability to connect I suspect that socket 
connections to the X server [a socket is represented by a file most likely in 
the /tmp/.X11-unix directory] cannot be established due to the lack of 
read/write permissions and possibly the "sticky bit".  I know if the 
/tmp/.ICE-unix file doesn't have the right permissions KDE certainly won't 
work. :)

Hope I was helpful...

Dave

On Friday 27 July 2001 03:42, you wrote:
> Hi can you please help me.
>
>
> i get this error when trying to start X windows
>
> ~~~~~~~
> pentium [/home/justin~] 3:35 >startx
>
> execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 2)
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable
> to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> ~~~~~~~
>
> =====
> Meredith
>
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