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Re: xinit can't find X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ridgway)
Mon Oct 21 18:43:32 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:38:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Ridgway <ridgway@routh.UCSD.EDU>
To: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610202344.SAA14379@moni.msci.memphis.edu>
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On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:
> Are you starting X with the command `startx' or `xinit'? What is the
> error message exactly? (It is always useful to include this in an
> error report)
Either. It doesn't work as startx, nor as xinit (which is called by the
startx script). Starting X by typing X does work, but xinit/startx used to
work.
The precise message is
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH
Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
that "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display. Possible server names include:
XF86_SVGA SVGA color display on i386 PC
XF86_Mono monochrome display on i386 PC
XF86_VGA16 16 color VGA display on i386 PC
XF86_S3 S3 color display on i386 PC
XF86_8514 IBM 8514/A color display on i386 PC
XF86_Mach8 ATI Mach8 color display on i386 PC
XF86_Mach32 ATI Mach32 color display on i386 PC
XF86_Mach64 ATI Mach64 color display on i386 PC
XF86_P9000 Weitek P9000 color display on i386 PC
XF86_AGX IIT AGX color display on i386 PC
XF86_W32 Tseng ET4000/W32 color display on i386 PC
xinit: unexpected signal 2
(where I killed it with a Control-C after waiting a few seconds).
> Check (do) these (I know they are trivial):
>
> 1) Check the permissions on
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
> It should be
> -rwsr-xr-x
[root@hamster ridgway]# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2559456 Aug 29 17:42
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
> 2) I am assuming your path includes /usr/X11R6/bin/.
> 3) Is PATH exported (maybe you tinkered with /etc/profile or
> ~/.bashrc)?
[root@hamster ridgway]# export
...
declare -x PATH="/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
> 4) What if you set (export!) the path explicitly like
> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
> on the command line and then do `startx'.
Same. Also same if I do it under tcsh.
I added the dev, sh-utils, setup, util-linux and initscripts rpms from
the 4.0 errata in the hopes that one of them would help, but no such luck.
(Cc'd to the list. I hope you don't mind.)
doug.
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