Re: what now?

Subject: Re: what now?
From: "David A. Gatwood" <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:52:59 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Mark Robinson wrote:

> > Hi, after you login as root, type in startx to start the X Windows system.
> > Then you can set up the internet (something that I still haven't figured out
> > how to do) choose screensavers & desktop patterns, play games, etc.
>
> I tried typing startx in both user and root but it fails with:
>
> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> (repeated 5 times)
> giving up
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

What does "ls -l /etc/X11/X" show? Either that link is missing or the
file it points to is missing. If the above shows no such file or
directory, then do:

cd /etc/X11/
ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/Xpmac X

Then run startx.

Later,
David

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