From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 5:11: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imf07bis.bellsouth.net (mail307.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5656A37B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:11:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimbacd@bellsouth.net) Received: from mutt.home.net ([208.63.160.25]) by imf07bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with ESMTP id <20010727121153.EKUE18795.imf07bis.bellsouth.net@mutt.home.net>; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:11:53 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6RCFUv01088; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:15:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Leimbach To: Meredith , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need help bad ly Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:15:30 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010727084255.84524.qmail@web20001.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072707153001.00642@mutt.home.net> 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 A guess for me would be to check your /tmp directory you should have a directory with the following name and permissions: drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Jul 27 07:02 .X11-unix The t on the end is a "sticky bit" and the chmod mask to use is the following; as root: chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix I am not sure if any of this will actually help you or not but KDE uses another layer called .ICE [through qt most likely]. This is used for their DCOP server which is a wrapper around the basic X IPC services. Because your errors are showing an inability to connect I suspect that socket connections to the X server [a socket is represented by a file most likely in the /tmp/.X11-unix directory] cannot be established due to the lack of read/write permissions and possibly the "sticky bit". I know if the /tmp/.ICE-unix file doesn't have the right permissions KDE certainly won't work. :) Hope I was helpful... Dave On Friday 27 July 2001 03:42, you wrote: > Hi can you please help me. > > > i get this error when trying to start X windows > > ~~~~~~~ > pentium [/home/justin~] 3:35 >startx > > 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. > ~~~~~~~ > > ===== > Meredith > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > 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