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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 2000 01:07:33 -0500
From:      Ryan Younce <ryan@manunkind.org>
To:        Mike <nikonbum@tampabay.rr.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help!!
Message-ID:  <20001201010733.A29492@cheshire.manunkind.org>
In-Reply-To: <000701c05b41$72a82d40$cfb25c18@oemcomputer.tampabay.rr.com>; from nikonbum@tampabay.rr.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 09:50:21PM -0500
References:  <000701c05b41$72a82d40$cfb25c18@oemcomputer.tampabay.rr.com>

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Thus spake Mike <nikonbum@tampabay.rr.com>:
> Im new to FreeBSD. I did a full install and got it all up and running but when I run startx i get 
> 
> execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 2)
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> giving up.
> xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: no such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> 
> How do i fix this??

My guess is the /usr/X11R6/bin/X symbolic link doesn't exist.  Did you run
XF86Config first?

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