From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 23 9:34:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from 4evermail.com (equinox.4evermail.com [204.92.209.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F147037B403 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 31617 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2001 16:34:47 -0000 Received: from 66-65-109-16.nyc.rr.com (HELO sioux) (66.65.109.16) by equinox.4evermail.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2001 16:34:47 -0000 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" To: "'L C'" , Subject: RE: Need help with Xwindows Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:34:25 -0400 Message-ID: <002d01c15be0$940fcd30$6501a8c0@sioux> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20011023163300.6948.qmail@web20209.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What port/package did you install exactly? -- Jonathan AFAIK, the best way to install X Windows is via /stand/sysinstall. --------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Slivko - 4EverMail.COM - www.4evermail.com Web Hosting - Web Desgin - UNIX Shell Accounts jslivko@4EverMail.com - Phone: (212) 663-1109 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of L C Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:33 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Need help with Xwindows Hello all, I am new to X windows and after installation I try to start x windows and this is what I get, when I type startx I get: xauth:creating new authority file /home/b/.xauthority xauth:(argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command Fatal server error cannot open log file "/var/log/xfree86.0.log" xinit:no such file or directory(errno2): unable to connect to xserver xinit:no such process(errno3): server error HELP ME!!!!!!! P.S. I carefully installed Xwindows but is this telling me that I didn't? HELP! HELP! HELP! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message