From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 2: 3: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B9137B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:03:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.ehsrealtime.com) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15Q3WO-0001Or-01; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:03:00 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15Q3Vf-0000Mr-00; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:02:15 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Meredith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help bad ly References: <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 27 Jul 2001 10:02:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <86bsm6u4mg.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 Meredith writes: > 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. > ~~~~~~~ What is your securelevel set to? Check /etc/rc.conf and look for a line saying securelevel. If this is set to anything other than 0, change it to 0 and reboot. HTH. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message