[solved] Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2017-02-27 20:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >>> Any openbox users out there? >>> >>> I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: >>> `unable to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? > > Yo

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 27.02.2017 um 22:00 schrieb Sven Joachim: >> [38.828] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10 >> [38.829] (EE) VESA(0): Cannot read int vect > > And the vesa driver does not work either because it needs root rights > which the X server does no longer have. See > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-co

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-02-27 20:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> Any openbox users out there? >> >> I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: `unable >> to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? You need to install the firmware-amd-

Re: X won't start after installing openbox

2017-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Any openbox users out there? > > I installed x-window-system-core and openbox but startx gives error: `unable > to connect to X server: Connection refused'. What am I missing? ...I'm attaching ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log: [38.808] X.Org X Server 1.19.1 Release

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:14 PM >> > Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc >> file >> > causing startup to fail? >> > >> > Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? >> >> Ok

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 00:31 Wed 26 Aug , Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,25.Aug.09, 17:11:45, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > Recall that if I change the login directory to > > /home/bill/temp in /etc/passwd > > then bill can startx just as any other user can. it is only > > from the /home/bill that x fails (silent

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:14 PM > > Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc > file > > causing startup to fail? > > > > Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? > > Okay, c'mon, did you read his

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread JoeHill
Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Mitchell Laks [mailto:ml...@post.harvard.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:48 PM > > > > On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>startx or gd

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Mitchell Laks [mailto:ml...@post.harvard.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:48 PM > > On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>startx or gdm? > > > > > >i shut off gdm and am work

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >>startx or gdm? > > > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might no

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 17:11:45 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > > > it'

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 17:11:45, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Recall that if I change the login directory to > /home/bill/temp in /etc/passwd > then bill can startx just as any other user can. it is only > from the /home/bill that x fails (silently :() What are the permissions of that directory? Regards

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! i only put it on for my sister anyway, i use command line > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. i have tried it no success.

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > it's broken! I agree that there is some file that is causing the problem, but I

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: startx or gdm? i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. :) Good for you! Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. -- Obsession with "preserving cultural

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > startx or gdm? i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. :) mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-24 17:00, Mitchell Laks wrote: [snip] So can any one tell me how to make the X startup verbose so that I can figure what file in /home/bill is causing the problem? startx or gdm? -- Obsesion with "preserving cultural heritage" is a racist impediment to moral, physical and intel

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: >> her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I >> logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. >> -- > > thanks Jimmy, > but that couldn't explain my problem, > > 1. No partitions are full.

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: > her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I > logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. > -- thanks Jimmy, but that couldn't explain my problem, 1. No partitions are full. 2. Why would the other users be ab

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I am running sid on a laptop. X was working fine. I lent my laptop to my sister for a few weeks and her kids played with it, and she returned it saying "it doesn't work". The problem is that X won't start as a single particular user. For all other users, X starts fine

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread James Vahn
Tong Sun wrote: > This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having > upgraded from xsever to xorg. > > Is there any way I can have my X back? X-window-system-core depends on xserver-xorg, you could try removing both of them and installing xserver-xfree86. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Antony Gelberg on 14/09/05 10:00, wrote: Tong Sun wrote: Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Carl Fink on 14/09/05 11:20, wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: to escape from x, the key combo ALT-CTRL-Backspace will kill it and everything running. On my laptop, since installing Xorg, I get the xdm login screen, but it's totally nonresponsive to keyboard

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Tong Sun a écrit : Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:22:38AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > to escape from x, the key combo ALT-CTRL-Backspace will kill it and > everything running. On my laptop, since installing Xorg, I get the xdm login screen, but it's totally nonresponsive to keyboard input. Ctrl-Backspace does nothing,

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
Tong Sun wrote: Hi, This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having upgraded from xsever to xorg. Is there any way I can have my X back? I saw in thread Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed gnome http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631.html tha

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Gu Xiaoyang on 14/09/05 05:46, wrote: I think that there should be a log file in /var/log. Its name is like Xorg.0.log. Please check that file to find what happened. Btw, when the system freeze, you can try to ssh login from other machine, this maybe works. Good LucK! On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 a

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-13 Thread Gu Xiaoyang
I think that there should be a log file in /var/log. Its name is like Xorg.0.log. Please check that file to find what happened. Btw, when the system freeze, you can try to ssh login from other machine, this maybe works. Good LucK! On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:00:00PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote: > Hi,

Re: X won't start having upgraded from xsever to xorg

2005-09-13 Thread Kent West
Tong Sun wrote: >Hi, > >This is a real emergency. My X won't start now, having >upgraded from xsever to xorg. > >Is there any way I can have my X back? > >I saw in thread > >Routine upgrade of packages tracking etch has hosed >gnome >http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2005-09/1631

Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005-09-08 Thread Joris Huizer
Bruno Buys wrote: Hi Jaime and Simo, I happen to be more stupid than I previously thought. My mouse is a serial. I had disabled serial stuff on .config. Now, recompiled and 2.12-5 is working ok with X. That's actually the first time I try to compile kernels. Funny thing to do. Do you

Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005-09-06 Thread Bruno Buys
Hi Jaime and Simo, I happen to be more stupid than I previously thought. My mouse is a serial. I had disabled serial stuff on .config. Now, recompiled and 2.12-5 is working ok with X. That's actually the first time I try to compile kernels. Funny thing to do. Do you guys know any liter

Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005-09-06 Thread Jaime Armendáriz Villalba
I've just had the same problem today. The solution has been, changing: # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX is not set to is set You will have to reboot, and there will be your /dev/psaux again 2005/9/6, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi,Are you using the legacy device (/dev/psaux) in your XF86Confi

Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005-09-06 Thread Simo Kauppi
Hi, Are you using the legacy device (/dev/psaux) in your XF86Config-4? If so, you need to change it to /dev/input/mice, since you don't have the /dev/psaux in your kernel. The section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 looks something like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mo

Re: X won't start, need help to config XFree86

2004-11-17 Thread Kent West
Zachary Uram wrote: Anyways, I just installed Debian 3.0 R2 (woody) which wass packaged with kernel 2.2.18. During X setup I selected default bpp of 24 (not sure what my on-mboard video supports - it has 4 MB VRAM) and for video type selected VESA (again since not sure what card supports). GDM give

Re: X won't start, need help to config XFree86

2004-11-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Zachary Uram wrote: Hi everyone, This is my first post to the lists. Wow high volume of traffic on here - how do I set mode to not deliver mail so I can just read them from the web? Unsubscribe from the list. Put a note in your signature asking to be CC'd (otherwise most people will not). You can

Re: X won't start until mouse moved

2004-07-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- chris dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > This happens on system boot. If just X is stopped and started there is > no problem. This might (I can't say for sure) have begun when I switched > to a 2.6 kernel and devfs. A solution would be great but even > suggestions on avenues to explor

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:37:34PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not s

Re: X won't start

2003-11-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:22:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > >> problem I'm ready to tackle

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:58:01 -0600, Kent West wrote: >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > >Perhaps I missed it, but I never saw what your fix was. D

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
On 29 Nov 2003 at 14:58, Kent West wrote: > (By posting the solution you might also be helping somoe future aarchive > searcher.) Yes, I fully agree there. I've lost count of the number of times I've researched a problem on various newsgroups and other message forums, and the search results sh

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Kent West
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. Perhaps I missed it, but I never saw what your fix was. Don't leave us hanging . . . . (By posting the solution you

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:22:03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: >> Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse >> problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. >> >> When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm t

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating >

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that fails there is an error message stating Fatal server error: no screens found. I tried xf86config

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating > > Fatal serv

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating >

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: Appearantly I have no gpm. I was surprised when I had no text mode mouse but figured that it was something I could use. Is this somethihg I might be able to install? Yes. "apt-get install gpm". Did that,

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Healey
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: >> >> >Mark Healey wrote: > >>My X won't work with the default installation. >> >> > > >>Someone Suggested that I boot knoppix and copy /etc/X11

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-21 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: My X won't work with the default installation. Someone Suggested that I boot knoppix and copy /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 from there to my hd and reboot. I did that. X started but with no

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:24:42 -0800 (PST), "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Appearantly I have no gpm. I was surprised when I had no text mode > mouse but figured that it was something I could use. > > Is this somethihg I might be able to install? ..y

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:13:24 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> >> >>>Mark Healey wrote: >>> >>> I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so >>I'm >> >> trying agai

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mark Healey wrote: I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm trying again. My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries to start it

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Healey
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:40:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Mark Healey wrote: >> I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm >> trying again. >> >> My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries >> to start it and after several attem

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: I previously posted this under a different subject heading and got no response so I'm trying again. My X won't work with the default installation. When I boot it tries to start it and after several attempts I get a message telling me to look at the log followed by one asking i

RE: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Try startx w/o framebuffer. Go to /etc/X11/XF86config-4, search section device and change the option FBDev to false. This was enough to get it work for me. HTH, Willem-Jan Meijer <-- Alle inkomende en uitgaande e-mail worden gescand op virussen  --> <-- All incoming and outgoing e-mail is scann

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread Andy Van Hoof
turday, February 08, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: Re: X won't start -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 3:24 pm, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > Hi, > > i'm quite new to linux and i have an annoying problem... > > i just reinstalled debian (stable 3.0

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 Feb 2003 3:24 pm, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > Hi, > > i'm quite new to linux and i have an annoying problem... > > i just reinstalled debian (stable 3.0) and used tasksel to select some > packages, one of them the kde graphical environment. >

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread Seneca
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Andy Van Hoof wrote: [please wrap your lines at ~72 characters] > i just reinstalled debian (stable 3.0) and used tasksel to select some > packages, one of them the kde graphical environment. > > after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, tel

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, telling me to > select my gfx card etc (it's a matrox productiva g100 agp), then i > tried running startx and it crashed on me saying: no usable screens > found There should be

Re: X won't start

2003-02-08 Thread CaT
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Andy Van Hoof wrote: > after the installation i got some automated setup stuff, telling me to > select my gfx card etc (it's a matrox productiva g100 agp), then i tried > running startx and it crashed on me saying: no usable screens found Please provide yo

Re: X won't start without .xinitrc/.xsession

2001-10-11 Thread Marc Wilson
http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2001/debian-x-200110/msg4.html Read. On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I'm running XFree86 Version 4.1.1.1 on Debian (Sid) with a 2.4.7 kernel. > This is a fresh install. > > If I create a .xinitrc in my home directory and put a wi

Re: X won't start in woody

2001-09-26 Thread francisco m neto
» Colin Watson disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > > began to complain about a lot of dependencies, and ended up saying > > that 'there was a problem while processing the package > > xlibs-4.1.0.???.deb'. > > Traditionally, people give the actual error before that as well - but > anyway, it's probably

Re: X won't start in woody

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 07:25:31PM -0300, francisco m neto wrote: > I've been trying to install woody on a PIII with a SiS 620 > graphics chipset for the last 6 hours. Everything was working fine > while I was using potato, but when I made a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' it > began to complain about

Re: X won't start in woody

2001-09-25 Thread Jason Boxman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 06:25 pm, francisco m neto wrote: > Hi there, Hey! > I've been trying to install woody on a PIII with a SiS 620 graphics > chipset for the last 6 hours. You'll have to be a bit more specific with error messages and such for anyone to be of much help. Did XF

Re: X won't start

2000-09-12 Thread Adrian Nims
Thaks to all who helped me to solve this problem. I succesfully working out. Thank you, Adrian Nims

Re: X won't start

2000-09-11 Thread Pat Mahoney
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:31:43PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote: > Just installed 2.2 when it boots it looks like xfs and xdm both start up. > When I type startx I get. > x: exec of /usr/bin/x11/xf86_svfg failed. I used xf86config to build a config > file this is a Diamond Viper 770 and I used the c

Re: X won't start after upgrade

1999-12-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
pollywog wrote: > > Hello, > > I am unable to start X after today's upgrade (Potato) and I am unsure exactly > what was removed that caused things to get messed up. > > Should there be a symlink for the X binary? I believe there should be one in > /etc/X11 linked to the binary, or is that no

Re: X won't start after upgrade

1999-12-18 Thread Paul J. Keenan
pollywog wrote: > > Hello, > > I am unable to start X after today's upgrade (Potato) and I am unsure exactly > what was removed that caused things to get messed up. > > Should there be a symlink for the X binary? I believe there should be one in > /etc/X11 linked to the binary, or is that no

Re: X won't start (never mind)

1999-10-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
Forget this one. I don't know exactly what happened, but after rebooting X works again. Actually I had solved this before the message went out, however after the latest potato upgrade sendmail wouldn't restart until I edited sendmail.mc so I had a few days of outgoing mail in my queue. On Mon, O

Re: X won't start

1999-07-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
Well, the problem occured after yesterday's potato update and went away after today's update (whew!). I can't find anything in the changelog which would explain it. Oh well, that's why it's called "unstable". Bob On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 06:56:35AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 199

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:35:58AM -0500, Michael Merten wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:15:01AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:14:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > [snip] > > > > > (**) FontPath set to > > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread Michael Merten
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:15:01AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:14:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: [snip] > > > (**) FontPath set to > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Minor correction here to my previous post: stuff removes your unix.o module if you have not started your X server for a period of time. How can the Xserver connect to the udp socket now ? Try starting X after U 'insmod unix'. Lo and behold has it come up..?? ragOO, VU2RGU.

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Bob Nielsen bombs his X after a bout of kernel compilation: > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect > to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > This is a problem which can bug U. I

Re: X won't start

1999-07-02 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 09:14:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I recompiled my kernel today (minor changes) and after installing > the new version, when I try to start X, I get: > > ... > [snip] > (**) FontPath set to > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us

Re: X won't start....keeps jumping back to XDM.

1997-02-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Cinege) writes: > I just did a fresh install of 1.2.5. > > The everything thing seemed to instll fine. The XFree setup went smooth. > > When I boot up I get XDM. After I log in the screen changes for a second, > then jumps back to XDM.