Re: problems starting X in woody
Hi!,
this problem finnaly was solved!! Please, see the post next about upgrading to
woody from potato.
Thanks!!
Marcelo
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 08:56:07AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I upgraded to woody from potato. I installed XFree86 4.1 and xserver-xfree86.
> The chipset, 3dfx Woodoo3, is detected fine. I had problems trying to run gdm,
> and I was adviced from this list to reinstall xfonts-base (thanks Thomas!).
> What happened then was that the initial windows o gdm opened fine, but I was not
> able to login in any session. Only the gnomesafe option in gdm worked.
> I decided to deinstall gdm and wait until be able to start the X manager from
> the command line before install a session manager again. But now I can't start
> X. For example:
>
> 1) If I type "wmaker" in order to login in a WindowMaker session I get:
> /usr/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: could no open display ""
>
> 2) If I use "gnome-session" in order to login in a Gnome 1.4 session I get:
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.Ice-unix should be set to root
> SESSION_MANAGER=local.nostromo:/tmp/.ICE-unix/194
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
>
> Gtk_WARNING **: cannot open display
>
>
> Honestly, I have no idea what is going wrong. And I need to put the machine to
> work! Any help will be *very* appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marcelo
>
> --
> Marcelo Chiapparini
> DFT-IF/UERJ
> chiappa@uerj.br
>
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Marcelo Chiapparini
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