From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 10:30:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server26.ilap.com (server26.ilap.com [216.223.128.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E7515A95 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phorechuk@docucom.ca) Received: from paul (server25.docucom.ca [209.5.109.25]) by server26.ilap.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3/Internet Light and Power Inc.) with SMTP id NAA17795; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:30:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004701bf1472$babc67c0$73f8d7a5@paul.docucom.ca> Reply-To: "Paul Horechuk" From: "Paul Horechuk" To: "Sean O'Connell" , Subject: Re: X won't start Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 01:28:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The path is correct and there doesn't appear to be any dirrerences in the environment before and after running /stand/sysinstall and the XF86 config. I'm not sure about the /tmp. I'll have to check that. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Sean O'Connell To: Paul Horechuk Date: October 12, 1999 9:38 AM Subject: Re: X won't start >On 1999 Oct 11, Paul Horechuk (aka phorechuk@docucom.ca) wrote: >> Thanks for a couple of previous suggestions, but I still have the same >> problem. I checked the symbolic link for X and it appeared correct, except >> for the group access: >> >> fatal server error: >> failed to establish all listening sockets >> giving up. >> >> >> xinit: no such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to X server >> xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error >> >> These errors occur if I login as root and immediately use startx. >> >> If I go through /stand/sysinstall, answer OK and SAVE at the various prompts >> for the XF86 Configure options, then quit out, I can run startx with no >> problems. > >Paul- > >Two things that come to mind are: > >Make sure that /tmp/.X0-lock does not exist before running startx? >Make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path. > >Good luck >S >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Sean O'Connell Email: sean@stat.Duke.EDU >Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419 >Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message