From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 14:16:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23391 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.swn.de ([195.63.54.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23354 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flashlight@swn.de) Received: from swn.de ([195.63.54.233]) by mail.swn.de (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-33645U110) with ESMTP id AAA12900 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:20:35 +0200 Message-ID: <35E72A51.53F10829@swn.de> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 23:08:17 +0100 From: flashlight@swn.de (Barry Grotjahn) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: startx and xinit failed (?) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After now two weeks I switched on my FreeBSD-maschine again ... .. And after login as root I tried to startx but it failed . First : command not found (?) - I think I have to add the path ... . Then I changed manualy to /usr/X11.../bin and tried again : command not found . So I typed in the whole path for startx and got the message xinit not found . Again I typed the whole path but now for xinit and pressed enter . Now a winow for Xwindow opened but only for a short moment . The process breaked : server shutdown . The last line told me : unexpected ´´)´´ ... . But in wich file could that be - so that I´d edit it ? Any ideas for the whole problem ? I´d enjoy because I have to go on ... . Thank you Barry, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message