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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Eric Kylstra <erick@accessone.com>
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Subject: Re: X-Windows - trying to get working
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 06:56:28 +0100 (MET), Bogusz Jelinski wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Eric Kylstra wrote:
> >
> >> Excuse a few dumb questions here.  I have installed 2.1.5 and all the
> >> basics are working (bash and users are set up).  As part of the install
> >> I took the setup options after the main install to set up XF86Config.
> >> 
> >> I may have made a mistake when I accepted the default to place
> >> XF86Config in /etc.  I also copied it to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 after
> >> things were done.
> 
> >No mistake here.
> >> 
> >> At this point none of the programs in /usr/X11R6/bin work even though
> >> they have the executable permission is set.
> 
> >What kind of message is displayed on the screen. I bet - xinit file not 
> >found
> >The most common mistake is to run X without having set the PATH correctly.
> >That is  /usr/X11R6/bin should be added
> >
> > > 
> >> Do I need to compile things from xc/programs/Xserver with make
> >> Makefile, make Makefiles, and make depend?
> 
> >No need!
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Bogusz
> >
> 
> I'm afraid all the path stuff is correct.  What I get when I try to run
> startx, X or any other X-windows program is that a program by that name
> doesn't exist.  This is even though the permissions are correctly set
> to executable.  Any other ideas?
> 

If you're absolutely sure the path is correct, you might want to try:

1) rehashing -- if you're using tcsh you should remember that it doesn't 
look up executables each time you run them; instead it hashes their 
locations in a database.  Sometimes you need to tell it to "rehash" to 
update that database.

2) reinstalling X -- can't hurt, right?

> 
> Eric Kylstra
> erick@accessone.com
> 
> 



 Ben

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