Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:14:31 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: beth@alpha.gte.net (Elisabeth Arnold) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Xinit: Wierd errors Message-ID: <199708010044.KAA07984@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970731163528.197A-100000@alpha.gte.net> from Elisabeth Arnold at "Jul 31, 97 04:47:19 pm"
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Elisabeth Arnold writes: > When attempting to run xinit I get many strange errors. It says things > like: > > XF98_GANBWAP/o (character like an equal sign, but with 3 -'s) (diamond > shape): not found Is the text *really* XF98_GANBWAP/o? > This continues with strange symbols and not found messages. Then the > message: "/usr/X11R6/bin: 50: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution" Is /usr/X11R6/bin a directory? This looks like the system is trying to interpret some binary as a shell script--usually a sign that it doesn't recognize the binary format. > The message "_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2" > repeats 6 times followed "giving up." That's almost normal. > xinit: Interupted system call (errno4): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. At a guess, you have severe data corruption or an incorrect architecture somewhere, probably in whatever you're trying to use as an X server. Check: 1. /usr/X11R6/bin/X. This is usually a symlink: $ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 9 Feb 6 07:55 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -> XF86_SVGA 2. What it's pointing to: $ ls -lL /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 2811834 May 8 1995 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA 3. What file type it is: $ file /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA: setuid FreeBSD/i386 demand paged dynamically linked executable not stripped Note that you'll have to give the real name of the program in this case. I suspect that (3) will give you some other result. Let me know how this works. Greg
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