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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!hela.iti.org!usc!isi.edu!allard From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [XFree86] getting errno 61 after startx Message-ID: <22854@venera.isi.edu> Date: 7 Nov 92 00:26:58 GMT Sender: news@isi.edu Reply-To: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) Distribution: world Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute Lines: 62 I am posting this early weekend, Pacific time, in the hopes of obtaining some help before Sunday afternoon, Pacific time (Sunday evening or Monday morning for the rest of the world). By then, I will have read alot from man X386, which I just realized I could install as per ancient help from David LeBlanc which I had neglected to apply. So maybe I'll figure it out by Sunday myself and maybe not, but in any case, here's my story. After a hiatus away from 386BSD, I'm back into the fray. I have enough experience with installing and using 386BSD that I now no longer have that bright eyed eager look on my face when I try to do something for the first time. I know that further sysadmin obstacle courses await me, like a gigantic maze with twisty little passages, all alike, never ending. In trying to run X two months ago, I installed the patched kernel from agate, put a hacked together Xconfig in place and then failed miserably when I tried to do startx. A couple of days ago, a local Unix guru came over to see if he could help me out. His name is Tom. Tom browsed around a bit, entered some incantations, which I believe included putting a file named ..xserverrc somewhere (we are still logging in as root) which contains the line /usr/X386/lib/Xll/X (I may not remember that path exactly), and doing sh instead of csh. And maybe some other stuff. NOW, we do get some life out of X. Here's our current situation, i.e., what appears on the screen when we do startx: ==================================================== > startx X386 Version 1.2E 1.0.2a / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000) <... the screen changes into a bunch of static for about two seconds then goes blank. Several seconds then pass without anything occuring...> giving up Xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ==================================================== I suspect that Xinit is trying to do a socket connect to an X server which either does not exist or has done an accept on a port not known to Xinit. But I am merely guessing based on my knowledge about sockets. About X, at that level, I know nothing, per se. Help. My machine is not networked. It is a 386 clone which does nonX 386BSD just fine. Dennis Allard allard@isi.edu