Re: startx problems

["Kevin C. Smith" <smithkevinc@nettaxi.com>]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:05:37PM +0100, John Lord wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone let me know what the following errors mean, and how to fix them
> please?
> 
> /bin/startx: /bin/xauth: cannot execute binary file
> /bin/startx: /bin/xinit:      "      "      "
> 
> I have updated some files over the net and can't quite work out what has
> happened. I am a relative newbie to Linux though have been reading some docs
> to familiarise myself with the various apps, but still a long way to go.
> 
Did you check to see if those files exhist?
If they don't, you most likely need to install/reinstall the xbase-clients 
package.

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