Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:52:25 +0400 From: Kirill Y Berezin <kirillyb@mail.ru> To: Douglas Ulyate <dugg@iafrica.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X Server Problem Message-ID: <380F44C9.4C9990AA@mail.ru> References: <380E1EC9.95209954@iafrica.com>
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Douglas Ulyate wrote: > Hi, > > Just one note, I sent this message to the Questions list a couple of > days ago, and haven't received a relpy. Is there no other option that > re-installing X?. At least, I can only see reinstalling X as the best > option at the moment. > > uname -a output: > > FreeBSD Bismuth 3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #0: Thu Sep 16 18:25:12 > GMT 1999 > jhay@exteension.mikom.csir.co.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > When I tried to run startx, I got the following message: > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "ld-linux.so.2" not found > > So, I don't know whether this was the correct thing to do or not, I > downloaded the file "ld-linux.so.2". Now, I get the following message > when I run startx: > > Bus error - core dumped > > This then creates a file called xinit.core in my home directory. > > When I run xdm, I get the login screen, but after logging in, it just > sends me back to the login screen. The file .xsession-errors contains > the following: > > exec: /home/drdugg/.xsession: permission denied > > I must just point out that sometimes I tried to run xdm as a regular > user, and not after running su, by mistake. > > On the X Desktop, I have GNOME with Enlightenment, but haven't actually > loaded them because the X Server keeps giving me the abovementioned > error messages. Both .xinitrc and .xsession contain just one line, exec > gnome-session. > > TIA > > DouglasF > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message This was happened on "fresh" system or after a while? It is interesting for me because I have faced with the same problem, but with respect to other programs. Kirill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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