Darron Froese (darron@calgary.westworld.ca)
Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:34:51 -0600
> I've got an ANS 500 with a clean install of LinuxPPC R4.1 using the
> instructions from Scott Every and Jean Robertson (thanks to both!) and
> Scott's ins.4.coff installer. I was able to intstall from CD to internal and
> restarted with a kernal panic. Solved that problem by getting Scott vmlinux
> from the R4 ftp directory. My problem now is getting X to start. When I type
> startx, I get the following error:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to establish all listening sockets
> giving up.
> xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
>
> I have no clue what this means since I very new with Unix and LinuxPPC.
> Anything to get me started would be great. I had R4 installed before, and X
> worked, useing the HellFire installer, but I really don't want to start all
> over again :(
Steve,
Can you start X as root? If you can only do it as root and not as any other
user, you will need to make your X server suid root. Here's a URL with some
info:
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/lppc-serve/cache/69.html>
Hope that helps.
-- Darron darron@calgary.westworld.ca - WestWorld Computers <http://i.am/darron/>
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