[100530] in RedHat Linux List
Re: errno 111: can't connect to X server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sat Nov 21 15:53:25 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 15:52:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Jeff wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> After StarOffice destroyed my system, I reinstalled RH 5.1. Using the
> default 2.0.34 kernel that ships with RH 5.1, I can use X11, but it
> doesn't have support for CD-ROM (ISO9660) built-in. When I roll my own
2.0.34 certainly does have iso9660 support. How do you
think people installed from CD? You had something set up wrong.
>
> (any version, say 2.0.35), I can't run X11. I get
>
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> giving up
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> Never had a problem using X with my own kernels before. What in the
> kernel affects X11? When I rebuild it, I just remove the networking
> junk (Ethernet, etc.), RAM disks, SCSI support, obscure serial cards and
> filesystems. I have a standalone machine with 64 MB RAM, a dialup
> Internet connection, and PCI/EIDE hardware.
You need networking so the local loopback interface can
work to support X.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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