X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?
I am top-posting the crucial error message. Context follows below,
and in prior posts this thread.
> are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue
> there.
sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory
What is cpp (is it same as gcc)?
Why would it be referenced while starting X?
Must cpp/gcc be installed simply to run X?
Are there additional packages beyond what is shown below that need to
be installed to support running X?
Here is a list of the X-related pkgs currently installed:
x11-common/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
xbase-clients/etch uptodate 1:7.1.ds1-2
xbitmaps/etch uptodate 1.0.1-2
xfonts-100dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3
xfonts-75dpi/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-3
xfonts-base/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-4
xfonts-encodings/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6
xfonts-scalable/etch uptodate 1:1.0.0-6
xfonts-utils/etch uptodate 1:1.0.1-1
xkb-data/etch uptodate 0.9-4
xserver-xorg-core/etch uptodate 2:1.1.1-21etch1
xserver-xorg/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
xserver-xorg-input-all/etch uptodate 1:7.1.0-19
xserver-xorg-input-evdev/etch uptodate 1:1.1.2-6
xserver-xorg-input-kbd/etch uptodate 1:1.1.0-4
xserver-xorg-input-mouse/etch uptodate 1:1.1.1-3
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/etch uptodate 0.14.6-1
xserver-xorg-input-wacom/etch uptodate 0.7.4.1-5
xserver-xorg-video-vesa/etch uptodate 1:1.3.0-1
xterm/etch uptodate 222-1etch2
On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:05:00PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > On 9/13/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I reinstalled etch 4.0r1 from scratch. So all below refers to stable.
> > > > ...
> > > > Now I tried to start X 3 different ways.
X is verified to be running.
> > I looked using "ps fax" and see the following while that blank screen
> > is up (trimming some output):
> >
> > \_/bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
> > \_ xinit /root/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc -aut[rest cut off]
> > \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
> > \_ sh /root/.xinitrc
> > \_ xterm
> > \_ bash
> >
>
> Ok, wow, so X is coming up (yay!!!!) and its clients are up and
> running (yay!!!) but you can't see them (booooo!!!!). I assume you are
> only seeing the usual grey screen, right? xsetroot is doing nothing as
> well, right? is there a mouse cursor?
I see no grey screen. Screen is TOTALLY blank (and black). No
background anything. No mouse cursor.
To remind those new to thread: this very same hardware runs X fine in
an etch (when it was testing) install from late 2005.
>
> maybe try coming up with an xterm command line that
> specifies the placement of the window someting like --geometry 300x400+100+100 so that you are confident that the window would be intersecting the
> screen
Have already tried this but retried with
xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0
Same blank black screen.
>
> are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue
> there.
Yes, there is one error there, I missed reporting it the other night
sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory
What is cpp (is it same as gcc)?
Why would it be referenced while starting X?
>
> Also, is it possible somehow that you are getting more than one X
> display running and the xterm is connecting to the wrong one? maybe
> specify --display :0.0
Only one shows in ps listing so I assume only one is running.
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Gordon Pedersen gordon@visi.com
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