On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 07:41:36PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:15:57PM -0700, Sidney Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I have lost the ability to use xdm, run level 5, and would like to know how > > to restore it without reinstalling Debian. I can operate in run level 3 as > > long as I do not go into graphics. > > > > This is how it all happened. I downloaded some files using Debian and then > > transferred them to Windows because I wanted to save the files on a CD. > > After doing this, I tried to go back to Debian and got into run level 2. I > > then edited /etc/inittab, which had level 5 and changed it to level 3. > > Going into level 3, I tried to use startx, but got the following. > > > > startx > > No such file or directory: cannot stat /temp/.X11-unix, aborting > > _X11 TransSocketUNICConnect: Can't connect: error =111 > > giving up > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) : unable to connect to x sever > > xinit: No such process (errno 3). Server error > > Are you typing the error message or copying it? > > There is no '/temp/.X11-unix' in the standard filesystem. There *is* > /tmp. Maybe bad permissions: > > drwxrwxrwx 12 root root 3072 Oct 10 19:41 /tmp
Uh, that should be drwxrwxrwt (1777), or anyone can delete files created by others. You don't want that. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton
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