From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 11 20:35: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F037637B403 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@babbleon.org) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.26.250.89]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:34:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Robert John Hall" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xwindows has stopped working Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:34:40 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010711222513.A275@staunton.bodd-der.net> In-Reply-To: <20010711222513.A275@staunton.bodd-der.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01071123344000.00559@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The simple solution is probably to reboot. This general message used to come up with moderate frequency years ago on my Linux machine, and it meant that I'd run out of resources (usually tasks or file handles; sometimes memory, perhaps) . . . Not sure if the errno was 2, though: I thought that was one. In any case, to look up errnos, just do man errno 2 is "No such file or directory" . . . which probably means that you can ignore my first paragraph there . . . something isn't where it should be, but guessing what is missing is difficult. I would remove the xdm/kdm setup, however you did that (most common approch is to set the default run level form 3 to 5, so reverse it back to 3). Then you can start up the server by hand and you'll get much more helpful diagnostics where you can easily find them. In general, walking (line-mode, bring up X by hand a few times) before running is a good idea . . . On Wednesday 11 July 2001 22:25, Robert John Hall wrote: > When I booted up tonight and started Xwindows, I got a blank screen. After > Cntrl+Alt+backspace, I got the following error message. > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 2 > I've just gotten my first Unix system up and configured, so I don't have > diagnostic skills for this OS. I've looked for man pages, but I can't think > variation on X11 that brings up a man page. I've tried searching this > list's archives, but either I can't think of the right keywords or this > problem hasn't come up before. Can anyone either explain what's going on > or tell me where I can look up the error number? > > Bob Hall > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message