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Re: Problems Starting X - Debian 3.0 rev0 Gnome 2.0



On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:25:43PM +0000, Ben Hill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have set up Debian 3.0 rev0 and apt'd Gnome 2 onto it. It has set 
> everything up, but when gdm tries to run it complains. I have tried a 
> manual "startx", but then I get an error message:
> 
> <snip>
> xinit: <snip> no server "X" in path
> <snip>

rob@thebox> ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 2002-07-29 10:53 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86*

What does it say for you?

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

startx from a vt does or does not work?  Error message?

-rob

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