Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:05:40 -0500 From: "leegold" <no_spam@worldpost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: nasty x problem Message-ID: <000001c1b194$6ad0f5c0$5be23ad0@ljgms2k>
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I'm afraid of getting myself into more trouble. Please
keep the instructions simple and please give me
step by step instructions, then... as a technical
sidebar please explain to me what
happened\what I did wrong. (note: my email is leegold@operamail.com)
I also check/lurk in the ques. archives
1. I tried to update from xfree86. 3 to xfree86. 4
I did a pkg_add and ver4 installed ok
I installed the xwrappers from the ports.
I configured all I was supposed supposed to configure
in /etc/make.conf.
2. Something went wrong. ie I was able to startx as root
and ver.4 was OK. But as a user I got an error message
saying I needed to install xwrapper. I did a pkg_info
and saw wrappper in the list (it was installed).
3. went on the freebsd newgroup and asked for help.
As a result of the recommendations I got. I did a
pkg_delete of wrappper. Then I rechecked make.conf,
saw I had a space were I shouldn't of in the XFREE86_VERSION=4
string, edited and saved.
4. I then went into posts directory for xwrapper and did a make, make install.
The prompt (#) returned but there were no lines scrolling at each make
command I normally ecpected to see. And pkg_info said no xwrapper
was installed.
5. I screwed my x up. Now I can not even startx as root or a user:
Below is the error output of startx: Please Help me - Thanks.
Note I tried and tried to redirect the error output as root
user to a user file but #startx 2> /home/username/error_mess
just would not work so below is the error output when trying
to startx as a user. But, the root and users errmessages are
quite alike reflecting the same problem imo. Thanks
xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command
xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command
xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command
xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "add" command
Fatal server error:
Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: creating new authority file /home/leegold/.Xauthority
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
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