Re: Debin Help
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:34:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> jmullin wrote:
> If you don't know about it, the Debian mailing list archives (follow the
> links at http://www.debian.org) are a good place to search for info on
> problems.
>
> What do you mean by "the prompt stage"? Do you mean a login prompt, or a
> LILO prompt, or what? Is it text-only, or a graphical logon screen? Can
> you log in as both a normal user and as root?
>
> If you can login, try "startx". This will start X if it's installed.
> Most likely, it's not completely installed/configured. In such a
> situation, as root, run "apt-get install kde"; I believe this will
> install a basic KDE setup.
> --
I have a related problem which I have sidestepped by using "xdm"
instead of "startx". Although I have loaded Gnome, I rarely use it
explicitly (don't particularly like KDE -- in fact, the same goes for Gnome).
But I would like to return to some form of "startx".
On trying to initiate X by "startx" under root, the following error messages
appear:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
xinit: unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error
Thanks for any help.
sam
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