From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 12:46:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11889 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcas.cs.washington.edu (orcas.cs.washington.edu [128.95.8.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11884 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:46:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evgenyr@cs.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (evgenyr@localhost) by orcas.cs.washington.edu (8.8.5+CS/7.2ws+) with SMTP id MAA27814; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:45:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:45:45 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein To: Benjamin Krajmalnik cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Problems starting X-Server In-Reply-To: <000101be3c07$e5ce6920$fdfea8c0@maindev> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD 3.0 Release and am having some problems with the > X-Windows system. [snip] > The errors which I am getting when running it from the command line with > either startx or xinit are as follows: > > execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 2) > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 (this is repeated 6 > times) > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At least on my system, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a a symbolic link to the appropriate X-server (XF86_S3, in my case). Have you verified that the link is present on your system. (e.g: chdir /usr/X11R6/bin ln -s XF86_SVGA X (substituting the appropriate X server for XF86_SVGA, if you for instance have ATI card S3 card, W32 card, etc..) That's where I would start. Then, if that doesn't work, maybe do something like sh -x /usr/X11R6/bin/startx ,and figure out exactly where the script is failing. (startx is just a shell script). HTH ~Evgeny. > xinit: No such process To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message