Thus spake Branden Robinson: > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Damnit, we're all going to die; > Debian GNU/Linux | let's die doing something *useful*! > branden@debian.org | -- Hal Clement, on comments that > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | space exploration is dangerous > From: George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> > To: branden@debian.org > Subject: Weird XFree 4.1.0-6 problem on Sid > X-Scanner: exiscan *15t7Qq-0001BL-00*oT/rJmBdBYY* http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/ > > Hello there, > > Since I've upgraded from XFree 3.3.6. to 4.0.3 and now 4.1.0 I have being > experienced 2 probs with it no my Debian/Sid. First is if any non-root user > tries to startx the following happend: > elemag@debian:~$ startx > giving up > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. > > But if root startx , everything is OK. > The second problem is : > debian:~# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 532 not upgraded. > 1 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.1.0-6) ... > dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > xserver-xfree86 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > debian:~# > > Here are the configs and outputs: > > debian:/# cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 -dpi 100 $* > debian:/# > > debian:/etc/X11# cat Xserver > /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 > #RootOnly > #Console > #(anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) > Anybody > > debian:/etc/X11# cat Xsession.options > allow-failsafe > allow-user-modmap > allow-user-resources > allow-user-xsession > use-ssh-agent > > debian:/etc/X11# cat Xwrapper.config > allowed_users=console > nice_value=-10 > debian:/etc/X11# > > debian:/etc/X11# dpkg -l |grep xserver > ii xserver-common 4.1.0-6 files and utilities common to all X servers > pi xserver-common 3.3.6-38 files and utilities common to XFree86 3.x X > rc xserver-svga 3.3.6-38 X server for SVGA graphics cards > iF xserver-xfree8 4.1.0-6 the XFree86 X server > debian:/etc/X11# > > How can I use some X wrapper to allow other console users to startx > successfully? > Well I do not know how to resolve these problems. dpkg --force=all also > doesn't help .Hope I was quite informative about the system > Thank you in advance > > -- > Greets, > George Ok - I'm not sure all of this will work as smoothly as hoped, but first I'd say fix your installed packages. dpkg --purge those that are not installed fully, first backing up the XF86Config files to a different name. then dpkg --reconfigure xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-6 (you'll have to check the full name to get version info) If that goes smoothly, try the XFree86 --configure utility to generate a functional configuration, and see whgat happens. I think that you also want /etc/X11/Xserver to be set to 'console' rather than 'anybody' - I think this allows anybody at the terminal but not remote users. If it's still failing after these steps are taken care of, check the xinitrc script - it looks like that's where your errors are coming from. You may be able to trace it down from there. Good luck, Steve -- This is NOT a repeat.
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