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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:15:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Richard Jackson <rjackson@unearth.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error message at bootup?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117141418.5516Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801160610.AAA18679@mail3.texas.net>

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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Richard Jackson wrote:

> I am new to the list and to FreeBSD.  A friend sent me the below in 
> regards to a problem he having with he newly installed FreeBSD 
> machine. 
> _________________________________
> On bootup, I get the following message:
> 
> pid 139 (mgetty), uid 0 on /: file system full
> 
> This scrolls by the screen for a while, then stops, then does it again
> for about another 25 lines, stops, adds another 10, stops and adds
> another 3.  After that, I never see it again.

Bad very bad.  Check /tmp for any leftovers and remove any files you can
from the root partition.

> When I try "startx" or "xinit", I get:
> 
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=61
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections.
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=61
> ..
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=61
> ,,_XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
> _XSERVTransINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for
> tcp
> 
> Fatal Server error:
> Failed to establish all listening sockets
> 
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=61
> giving up.
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Seerver error
> 
> I'm typing this in, so there may be some typos.

That's probably related.

Error 61 = connection refused; is he running ipfw?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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