Hi jtv , On 04-Nov-01, you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:13:20PM +0100, John Lord wrote: >> >> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file >> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit: " " " > /bin/startx? That's an odd place for it... I suspect that ought to be > /usr/bin/X11/startx. Could you check whether there is a /usr/bin/X11/startx > on your system? If not, startx appears to be in the wrong place. If there > is, the one in /bin/startx would seem to be redundant and is mistakenly > being run because it occurs earlier in the search path. The one in /bin was an old one, so I showed it the door. So it is now using /usr/bin/X11/startx, but still get the same errors. The output of ls -l is this: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3090 Oct 5 07:02 /usr/bin/X11/startx > Any idea how the X Window System (probably XFree86) was installed on your > system? Did it just come with Debian that way? The original was a v3.9* from the Debian 2.2r2 PPC non-US cd set. but I installed XFreeV4.02 from a set of tgz binaries. Regards -- John Reality is for people who lack imagination. mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lordofchaos.co.uk ICQ 110130385 Nick = Chaos A1200 BlizzardPPC 240mhz 060/50 BlizzardVision OS3.9
