From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 21 15:37:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22523 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:37:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22515 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17178; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:06:52 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA29743; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:06:52 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980322100652.56038@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:06:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: BEAUPRE Antoine , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: can't start xserver References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from BEAUPRE Antoine on Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 12:04:12PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 March 1998 at 12:04:12 -0500, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > I've got my pc running freebsd release 2.2.5... > > I'm trying to use the XFree86 windowsmanager. Which one? Or do you mean XFree86? The window manager is an optional component, and you have a choice of more than 10 different ones. > I've run xf86config. Did it run correctly and not produce any error messaegs? What hardware do you have? I know it's a pain to type in all this stuff, especially when you don't have X running and really have to type it in, but I'm afraid I can't help unless you report things accurately. In this case, I have serious doubts. > I've got the folowing error message when i try to run XF86Setup: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 I don't know a program called XF86Setup. What do you mean here? > When I run xstart: Do you mean startx? I don't know an xstart either. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 > > waiting for Xserverto begin accepting connections . > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 > _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: fail to bind listener > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: SocketCreateListenerf() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListener: failed to create listener for tcp > > Fatal server error: > Failed to establish all listening sockets > > when reporting server crash[...] > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 61 > giving up. > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. How long did this take? > I don't know what to do next! What do you have in your .xinitrc? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message