From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 14:32:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00293 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:32:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00267 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:32:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29274; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:31:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Derk cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: installing XWindows In-Reply-To: <35D8A0E9.277DC7FB@infoserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, John Derk wrote: > > > > xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server > > > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > > > Did I see this already? > > Yes. Aagghghghhhh..... ;) > > > I've been debugging X problems and have all the > > threads mixed up :-( > > No worries. > > > How are you starting X? > > I just type 'startx' with no options/arguments. I'm logged in as root; using tcsh shell. > > > The problem is that your X server is crashing > > before the clients get started. Error 61 is Connection Refused, so some > > daemon (xdm?) isn't getting started. I'd suggest reinstalling X and make sure you pick up all the essentials and go through XF86Setup or xf86config throughly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message