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- From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [XFree86] getting errno 61 after startx
- Message-ID: <22854@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 00:26:58 GMT
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- Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
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- Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
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-
- I am posting this early weekend, Pacific time, in
- the hopes of obtaining some help before Sunday
- afternoon, Pacific time (Sunday evening or Monday
- morning for the rest of the world). By then, I
- will have read alot from man X386, which I just
- realized I could install as per ancient help from
- David LeBlanc which I had neglected to apply.
- So maybe I'll figure it out by Sunday myself and
- maybe not, but in any case, here's my story.
-
- After a hiatus away from 386BSD, I'm back into the
- fray. I have enough experience with installing and
- using 386BSD that I now no longer have that bright
- eyed eager look on my face when I try to do something
- for the first time. I know that further sysadmin
- obstacle courses await me, like a gigantic maze with
- twisty little passages, all alike, never ending.
-
- In trying to run X two months ago, I installed the
- patched kernel from agate, put a hacked together
- Xconfig in place and then failed miserably when
- I tried to do startx.
-
- A couple of days ago, a local Unix guru came over
- to see if he could help me out. His name is Tom.
- Tom browsed around a bit, entered some incantations,
- which I believe included putting a file named
- .xserverrc somewhere (we are still logging in as
- root) which contains the line /usr/X386/lib/Xll/X
- (I may not remember that path exactly), and doing
- sh instead of csh. And maybe some other stuff.
-
- NOW, we do get some life out of X. Here's our current
- situation, i.e., what appears on the screen when we
- do startx:
-
- ====================================================
- > startx
-
- X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System
- (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
- <... the screen changes into a bunch of static for about two seconds
- then goes blank. Several seconds then pass without anything occuring...>
-
- giving up
- Xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
- Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
- ====================================================
-
- I suspect that Xinit is trying to do a socket connect to an
- X server which either does not exist or has done an accept
- on a port not known to Xinit. But I am merely guessing based
- on my knowledge about sockets. About X, at that level, I
- know nothing, per se.
-
- Help.
-
- My machine is not networked.
- It is a 386 clone which does nonX 386BSD just fine.
-
- Dennis Allard
- allard@isi.edu
-