Re: CLI challenged
Re: CLI challenged
- Subject: Re: CLI challenged
- From: John Davidorff Pell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:23:20 -0700
Actually, you haven't and the reply you got won't help. The "error"
your seeing actually we *all* get, unless we run as root (which is
stupid) or we have scripts to do the chown automatically (and at each
boot).
the problem you are seeing is that nothing is keeping the X server
running. The X11.app doesn't stay open, and all you see is what you
quoted in the console log, right?
If the xterm flashes, then disappears it looks like you (or someone
else) may have added an "&" to the end a line in /etc/xinitrc or
~/.xinitrc (both text files, FYI) that is supposed to NOT have an "&"
(so that the program does not give up control and go into the
background). If you have a ~/.xinitrc, then make sure that the last
line is "exec quartz-wm" (unless you use a different WM, which I'm
guessing you don't).
If X11.app launches, then quites and the xterm does NOT flash on the
screen, it looks like you may have an ~/.xinitrc that does nothing, or
nothing useful. Try moving it out of the way. (in terminal: "mv
~/.xinitrc ~/xinitrc.bak") If things work now, then you can delete the
file. If you have something that you want to keep in your ~/.xinitrc
then you should edit this file and make sure that the "exec quartz-wm"
is at the end. (it might look like just "quartz-wm", add the "exec". if
it ends in a "&", then that is exactly your problem).
Hope this helps,
JP
P.S. if you have any questions, ask away!
On 5 Oct 2004, at 16:31, Stephen Truitt wrote:
My Xterm on iMac G3 starts up and dies with the following message:
============
XFree86 Version 4.3.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
[DRI] screen 0 installation complete
Screen 0 added: 1024x768 @ (0,0)
Quitting XDarwin...
===================
displayed in the Console log. I cannot seem to figure out what the
exact command to do this is. I know it uses "chown" or I think so, but
I don't know how to indicate the owner change is to root.
Help appreciated, assuming I have identified the problem.
Steve Truitt
--
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