From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 16:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10603.mail.yahoo.com (web10603.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFE5237B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:41:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20010201004156.24530.qmail@web10603.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [129.237.35.38] by web10603.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:41:56 PST Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:41:56 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler McGeorge Reply-To: treznor@sunflower.com Subject: Re: Unable to startx To: Jim Conner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010131192811.031e0d78@mail.enterit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm just guessing on this one, never had the problem myself, seeing how no working serial port=no serial mouse and lack of PS/2 port means no working mouse, so I don't have much experience with X. :P However, This sounds like a possible permissions problem. I'm not sure, but I think X may need to be started as root initially. But seeing how you said you ran it from /stand/sysinstall, this is probably not the case. I would delete all the X packages, not sure which or how many, but you can find out with pkg_info, which you might want to pipe that to grep and filter out anything that doesn't reference XF86 or something similar. After you delete those packages, add them again, and if possible, do it from the FTP just to simplify things (I have packages on CD and it's a hassle). Hope this helps, Ty --- Jim Conner wrote: > I have had the very same thing happen to me. I even > posted the question > here on this mailing list only to find that nobody > responded. Of course, > this meant to me that nobody knew the problem. I > even sent a bug report to > the XF86 folks and received no response from them as > well. > > *shrug* > > Let me know if you get an answer to this one as I am > still wondering how to > fix it even though I have since not used that > machine anymore. > > - Jim > > > At 07:51 AM 2/1/2001 +0800, Alan Tsang wrote: > > > >Hi > > > >I installed and setup the Release 4.2 but was > unable to startx. > > > >I followed the normal procedures, boot the > installation floppies and > >configured everything. > > > >In the installation screen, I was able to use > XF86Setup to configure the X, > >started X server test and save the configuration > file. > > > >However, when I boot the installed system and tried > to startx, I got message > >"xf86OpenConsole: KDENABIO failed (operation not > permitted). > > > >Even worse, when I tried to reconfigure X using > XF86Setup or inside > >/stand/sysinstall, the configuration program just > cannot start the X server > >anymore. > > > >I would be grateful if anyone can help on the > issue. > > > >Thanks > > > >Alan Tsang > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > - Jim > - NOTJames > - jconner@enterit.com > > - > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > - | Today's errors, in contrast: > | > - | Windows - "Invalid page fault in module > kernel32.dll at 0032:A16F2935" | > - | UNIX - "segmentation fault - core dumped" > | > - | Humans - "OOPS, I've fallen and I can't get up" > | > - > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - (To view this properly use a non-proportional font > in your MUA) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message > > > __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message