On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:07:55PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 15:10, David R Hovland wrote: > > How do you get xwindows to start in Debian? I have reloaded it four > > times thinking I needed to use a different disk. I downloaded all > > seven. All I get at login is this: > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or > > directory. > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot > > execute: No such file or directory. > > > > giving up. > > > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error > > run tasksel as root and select "desktop environment" and then (i think) > click finish and then do whatever else it tells you to do.
For some reason this doesn't work... I tried it the other day... if all you select in tasksel is 'desktop environment' you don't get an X server installed. Huh?? (Though given that boot-floppies has one foot in the grave it's probably not worth making a fuss over this.) apt-get install xserver-xfree86 (as others have said) is the cure. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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