From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 22: 0:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A627537B404 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA93424; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:00:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:00:33 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: leegold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nasty x problem In-Reply-To: <000001c1b194$6ad0f5c0$5be23ad0@ljgms2k> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, leegold wrote: > I'm afraid of getting myself into more trouble. Please > keep the instructions simple and please give me > step by step instructions, then... as a technical > sidebar please explain to me what > happened\what I did wrong. (note: my email is leegold@operamail.com) > I also check/lurk in the ques. archives > > > 1. I tried to update from xfree86. 3 to xfree86. 4 > I did a pkg_add and ver4 installed ok > I installed the xwrappers from the ports. > I configured all I was supposed supposed to configure > in /etc/make.conf. > > 2. Something went wrong. ie I was able to startx as root > and ver.4 was OK. But as a user I got an error message > saying I needed to install xwrapper. I did a pkg_info > and saw wrappper in the list (it was installed). > > 3. went on the freebsd newgroup and asked for help. > As a result of the recommendations I got. I did a > pkg_delete of wrappper. Then I rechecked make.conf, > saw I had a space were I shouldn't of in the XFREE86_VERSION=4 > string, edited and saved. > > 4. I then went into posts directory for xwrapper and did a make, make install. > The prompt (#) returned but there were no lines scrolling at each make > command I normally ecpected to see. And pkg_info said no xwrapper > was installed. > > 5. I screwed my x up. Now I can not even startx as root or a user: > Below is the error output of startx: Please Help me - Thanks. > Note I tried and tried to redirect the error output as root > user to a user file but #startx 2> /home/username/error_mess > just would not work so below is the error output when trying > to startx as a user. But, the root and users errmessages are > quite alike reflecting the same problem imo. Thanks > > xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command > xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command > xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command > xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command > > > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" > > ... > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command > > ----------------end of errmess-------------- Is your hostname set, and have you rebooted since you set it? It should be a full name, e.g., mycomputer.something.net or whatever. It should show up if you type hostname at the prompt. You might try deleting all the .Xauth* files in root's home directory and also in your own home directory, which will be recreated when you run X again. There might be some other files you need to delete in /var/ somewhere. I think some of XFree-4's difficulties arise when you su -m to root, thus keeping your "user" home directory, where XFree writes files owned by root. It seems to me when run as root, XFree works best (this is also true of KDE) if run with /root as your home directory so these root-owned files don't get created there. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message