Re: Problems Starting X - no server "X" in path /usr/X11R6/bin

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Ben" == Ben Hill <ben@javacoder.net> writes:

    Ben> Hi, I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto
    Ben> it. It has set everything up, but when gdm tries to run it
    Ben> complains. I have tried a manual "startx", but then I get an
    Ben> error message:


    Ben> <snip> xinit: <snip> no server "X" in path <snip>

    Ben> and instructs me to make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is on the
    Ben> path. When I type a echo $PATH, the path does not contain
    Ben> /usr/X11R6/bin and the startx and xinit path from the which
    Ben> command are not running from this directory.


    Ben> I have then done an:

    Ben> export PATH=<some dirs such as /usr/sbin>:/usr/X11R6/bin

    Ben> and a "which" tells me that startx and xinit are from the
    Ben> right path now.

    Ben> However, running startx gleans the same message as before...

    Ben> I am a bit stumped, so could anyone help??

Well, be sure that you installed a server (xserver-xfree86). It
certainly sounds like you are missing it, since X is in /usr/bin/X11
on a Debian system.

If you have, then be sure that you see something like this

$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-sr-x    1 root     root         7416 Apr 16  2002 /usr/bin/X11/X
~$ ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 24  2002 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86

Cheers!
Shyamal