Re: XFree86 not running

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On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:41, Christian Wolf wrote:
> Doh!
> 
> :-)  No, it wasnt.... However, for using Gnome it is obviously
> necessary, so I wonder why there is no dependency in one of the packages
> or at least in the meta packages "gnome". Well but this is not an issue
> of the amd64-version, rather a general issue.
> 
> Thank you for the hint, anyway.

Not every machine that serves x sessions serves them locally.

Gnome runs just fine remotely - all it needs is gtk(etc) and xlibs.

(Although having gdm/kdm/xlibs/something suggest/recommend the x server
might be a pretty useful change.)  

> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
> Am Do, den 12.08.2004 schrieb Theodore Kisner um 23:24:
> > 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
> > 
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