From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 5:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gisco.net (mail.gisco.net [207.51.163.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CFC137B514 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 05:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gsollish@mail.gisco.net) Received: from pequod.autogear.net [207.51.166.53] by mail.gisco.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A1E754C0120; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:43:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 08:26:19 -0400 (EDT) From: George Sollish X-Sender: gsollish@pequod.autogear.net To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: gsollish@mail.gisco.net Subject: Upgrade woes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good Morning! I've been running 3.2R on a compaq i586-84 for a year and felt it was time to move on to 4.0R, so I followed the instructions for a binary upgrade which worked reasonably well EXCEPT: (1) 'startx' (for root or user) fails with a series of messages: Xwrapper: no modules loader for 'xserver' service Authentication failed -- cannot start X server Perhaps you do not have console ownership? [prompts for something here, then continues] X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 [repeats 4 or 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 (2) This is a dual boot box (Win95) using the FreeBSD bootloader. The bootloader works fine on a cold boot, but locks solid on a warm boot. Initiating a boot from the install floppy displays the same behavior: fine on a cold boot, 'disc read error, no /kernel present' on a warm boot. The upgrade kernel is GENERIC #0 from the BSDi cd's. Please reply to me at gsollish@mail.gisco.net, as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks much. George E Sollish Chief Engineer Auto Gear Equipment Host Classic-FM's Listening Room Project Manager The Payne Lake Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message