Re: XFree86 not running

[Theodore Kisner <kisner@physics.ucsb.edu>]

so package xserver-xfree86 is installed?

-Ted

On Thursday 12 August 2004 16:40, Christian Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> after having apt-get installed gnome after a netinstall, I wanted to
> start x (startx). However, X does not start but shows me the following
> message:
>
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X file not
> found
>
> xinit: unable to connect to xserver"
>
> Any ideas? I assume that the gnome metapackage is linked to XFree,
> because it was downloaded during the installation of gnome.
>
> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I am coming from gentoo, here the
> packages are linked against each other (well, Xorg) and all the
> necessary init-scripts are installed. Do I need to do that manually?
>
> Thank you a lot in advance for your patience :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian