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Author: Victor Odhner
Date:  
To: PLUG
Subject: startx on debian
I have just finished installing Woody and X does not start up.

Can anyone guess what is missing from my configuration?
I'm assuming /etc/X11/X is the wrong thing for startx to
be looking for.

Thanks,

Vic

vodhner@booker:~$ su
Password:
box:/home/vodhner# startx &
[1] 762
box:/home/vodhner#
X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting.

box:/home/vodhner# giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

[1]+  Done                    startx
box:/home/vodhner#
box:/home/vodhner# ls -ld /etc/X11/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  510 Feb 16 02:37 XftConfig
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar  8 13:42 Xresources
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root  root 2508 Feb 15 21:07 Xsession
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar  8 11:29 Xsession.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  217 Feb 15 21:07 Xsession.options
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  240 Mar  9 15:55 Xwrapper.config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar 10 00:16 app-defaults
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   13 Mar  8 14:40 default-display-manager
drwxr-xr-x 6 root  root 4096 Mar  9 15:50 fonts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    6 Mar  8 11:19 gdm -> ../gdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root17371 Feb 15 21:07 rgb.txt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root  root 4096 Mar  8 13:44 rstart
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root 4096 Mar 10 17:17 sawfish
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar  8 13:42 xinit
drwxr-xr-x10 root  root 4096 Mar  8 13:38 xkb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar  9 15:55 xserver
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root 4096 Mar  8 13:42 xsm
box:/home/vodhner#




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