On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 02:14:56PM +0200, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: > > If /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc exists, delete it. > Doesn't help! I've reinstalled xbase, xlib6g, xserver-svga and xserver-vga16 > today, and X is dead as before. And I don't have that xserverrc file. A friend > of mine who also upgraded yesterday experienced the same problem. Any other > ideas? Okay, in that case you probably have a conventional problem with X. Unfortunately there are all kinds of things that can cause the problem you're seeing. Perhaps the best thing to do is to join the #debian IRC channels some time and see if anyone can help. I certainly will try to help you out if I'm there. In the meantime: 1) Check the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver and make sure the user running X will be allowed to do so (off the top of my head, I think the X server wrapper fails without even invoking the real X server if the calling user isn't a member of the requisite group, but it's easy to check this). 2) Ensure that the mode is still 1777 (drwxrwxrwt) /tmp, and on /tmp/.X11-unix if it exists. 3) Make sure there is no /tmp/.X0-lock file. If there is, the reason you can't connect is because there's another X server already running! ps aux, hunt it down and kill it, or do something like startx -- :1 vt08 to get another X session in the meantime. 4) Even if there isn't a /tmp/.X0-lock file, it's worth looking through the process table to make sure there is no running X server. 5) If there is a running X server, and you didn't start it, maybe xdm is running. If you didn't start xdm by hand and don't want it running, make sure "no-start-xdm" is present in /etc/X11/config. Also check /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and see if xdm is managing your primary X display by default with a line like this: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X Note that the above line is harmless if xdm isn't running. That's all I can think of for now. If none of the above can solve your problem, please strace startx > problem 2>&1 and mail the results to this mailing list or branden@debian.org and I'll see what I can do. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Purdue University | for malicious intent is nothing more branden@purdue.edu | than sheer incompetence! http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- J. L. Rizzo II
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