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How to fix "X" config on a new Mandriva 2006 installation?
I just did this new installation and it boots up to the command line
okay, but GUI does not work. When I tried 'startx' from the command
line, I got these messages:
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serveauth.4063
execv3 failed for /etc/X11/X (errno2)
xinit: Server error.
# uname -a ... gives this result:
Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 AMD
Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux
I ran XFdrake and saw this:
Graphic card: S3 86C375 (ViRGE/DX)
Monitor: Flat panel 1280x1024
Resolution: 1152x864 16bpp
Test (ran this test and the display looked fine)
A search for installed "X" configuration files produced this list:
libxorg-x11-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
libxorg-x11-devel-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
xorg-x11-xfs-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
xorg-x11-server-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
xorg-x11-xauth-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
xorg-x11-6.9-1.cvs20050915.2mdk
The boot directory contains the following:
-rw-r--r-- 1608520 Sep 9 2005 vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 71299 Sep 9 2005 config-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 639316 Sep 9 2005 System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 254766 Sep 12 2005 message-graphic
drwx------ 12288 Aug 11 12:50 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Aug 11 13:07 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 20 Aug 11 13:23 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx 23 Aug 11 13:23 initrd.img -> initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r-- 115686 Aug 11 13:23 initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r-- 256 Aug 11 13:23 us.klt
-rw-r--r-- 116 Aug 11 13:23 message-text
-rw-r--r-- 512 Aug 11 13:23 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 23 Aug 11 14:25 System.map -> System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r-- 695 Aug 11 14:26 kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx 15 Aug 11 14:34 message -> message-graphic
-rw------- 308224 Aug 11 14:34 map
lrwxrwxrwx 19 Aug 11 21:27 config -> config-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx 27 Aug 11 21:27 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk
The exact same installation worked fine on my previous Mandriva
installation (that apparently has a damaged hard disk).
joe@actionline.com
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