From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 17 14:17:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27780 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27737 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:15:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA05688; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:15:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Richard Jackson cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error message at bootup? In-Reply-To: <199801160610.AAA18679@mail3.texas.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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