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Dotan
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 22:51:04 +0800, shlomo solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Firstly, as I'll explain later, I temporarily don't have access to my regular mail client or Pop address, so I subscribed and am sending this from
a Webmail account. I hope it doesn't produce HTML mail, like Hotmail's default. If it does, please let me know and I'll try to figure out how to
fix it.
OK - this is a long story, but it's probably of no real interest to anyone but me, so here's the short version - and I hope I don't leave out
relevant details:
After a Mozilla crash, I lost my X server. I tried startx from a command promt and got:
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2) giving up xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
I then discovered that the link to X pointed to a nonexistant file, because ls -la /etc/X11/X gave this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 18 2003 /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86*
but the file /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 didn't exist. I have no idea why. Since I have an additional partition with the same version of Mandrake
installed, I decided to take a chance and copy the missing file. That resulted in X starting to load, but aborting with error messages refering to
missing modules. I'll include the log at the end of this post.
I then tried re-installing XFree86 from RPM but that didn't change anything. I even tried RPM --erase and then re-installed X - still no luck. So I
decided that this would be a good time to update from MDK91 to MDK92 and hoped that a new version of X would solve the problem. However I'm still
getting the same error messages.
Before I include the error messages, let me just say that this is not a hardware problem and probably not a problem with X but with some parameters
that somehow got screwed up after the original Mozilla crash. The reason I say this is that, as I mentioned, I have an additional installation of
MDK on a seperate partition and it still runs X with no problems. I even updated it also from MDK91 to MDK92 with no problems. In case anyone is
wondering why I don't just use the working version, the reason is that it's on a small partition with no room for anything but the most basic
utilities - I don't even have room for sendmail, Mozilla, or anything. And, of course, my **normal** partition has everything I've set up and use.
BTW - I have a full backup of everything, but I have no idea where to look for whatever files have been screwed up. I did find some similar errors
on GOOGLE, but nothing that helped.
OK - here's the log I get when I try startx (after having re-installed everything). The relevant lines are near the end, but I'm including the
whole log:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF] Build Date: 12 March 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 5 15:52:42 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "layout1" (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1" (**) | |-->Device "device1" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (**) Option "XkbCompat" "default+group_led" (**) XKB: compat: "default+group_led" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) XKB: model: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,il" (**) XKB: layout: "us,il" (**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle" (**) XKB: options: "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" Using vt 7 (--) using VT number 7
(II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0)
Fatal server error: Unable to load required base modules, Exiting...
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TIA
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