I am top-posting the crucial error message. Context follows below, and in prior posts this thread.
> are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue > there. sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory What is cpp (is it same as gcc)? Why would it be referenced while starting X? Must cpp/gcc be installed simply to run X? Are there additional packages beyond what is shown below that need to be installed to support running X? Here is a list of the X-related pkgs currently installed: x11-common/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19 xbase-clients/etch uptodate 1:7.1.ds1-2 xbitmaps/etch uptodate 1.0.1-2 xfonts-100dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3 xfonts-75dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3 xfonts-base/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-4 xfonts-encodings/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6 xfonts-scalable/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6 xfonts-utils/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-1 xkb-data/etch uptodate 0.9-4 xserver-xorg-core/etch uptodate 2:1.1.1-21etch1 xserver-xorg/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19 xserver-xorg-input-all/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19 xserver-xorg-input-evdev/etch uptodate 1:1.1.2-6 xserver-xorg-input-kbd/etch uptodate 1:1.1.0-4 xserver-xorg-input-mouse/etch uptodate 1:1.1.1-3 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/etch uptodate 0.14.6-1 xserver-xorg-input-wacom/etch uptodate 0.7.4.1-5 xserver-xorg-video-vesa/etch uptodate 1:1.3.0-1 xterm/etch uptodate 222-1etch2 On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:05:00PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > On 9/13/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > > > > > > > I reinstalled etch 4.0r1 from scratch. So all below refers to stable. > > > > ... > > > > Now I tried to start X 3 different ways. X is verified to be running. > > I looked using "ps fax" and see the following while that blank screen > > is up (trimming some output): > > > > \_/bin/sh /usr/bin/startx > > \_ xinit /root/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -aut[rest cut off] > > \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > \_ sh /root/.xinitrc > > \_ xterm > > \_ bash > > > > Ok, wow, so X is coming up (yay!!!!) and its clients are up and > running (yay!!!) but you can't see them (booooo!!!!). I assume you are > only seeing the usual grey screen, right? xsetroot is doing nothing as > well, right? is there a mouse cursor? I see no grey screen. Screen is TOTALLY blank (and black). No background anything. No mouse cursor. To remind those new to thread: this very same hardware runs X fine in an etch (when it was testing) install from late 2005. > > maybe try coming up with an xterm command line that > specifies the placement of the window someting like --geometry > 300x400+100+100 so that you are confident that the window would be > intersecting the > screen Have already tried this but retried with xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 Same blank black screen. > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue > there. Yes, there is one error there, I missed reporting it the other night sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory What is cpp (is it same as gcc)? Why would it be referenced while starting X? > > Also, is it possible somehow that you are getting more than one X > display running and the xterm is connecting to the wrong one? maybe > specify --display :0.0 Only one shows in ps listing so I assume only one is running. -- Gordon Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
