According to Noel Yap: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I had a perfectly working X environment. After a routinely e2fsck > > (done by the boot scripts) with a few error reports for my root partition > > (/usr, /var/ home are separate), I get the following messages and X > > then dies: > > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > > (... a very lot of them) > > > > I re-installed xbase and the xserver - no success. > > Anybody has a clue? Where to find the error message? > > What to do? > > This means that the Xserver didn't start up and some program (xterm?) > couldn't connect to it. Have a look at $HOME/.xsession-errors. Also,
The only errors in $HOME/.xsession-errors are from April when I used a wrong version of qt libs while testing KDE. > are you using xdm or startx? If the former, look at > /var/log/xdm-errors. startx. So no luck. In the meantime I tried to re-install xbase, xlib6g, xpm4g, and my xserver (s3v) - again no luck. I have the uncertain feeling, the error is just one heart beat away... Do you know where to find the _real_ error message (errno = 111)? Bye kws -- Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte Bergische Universitaet-GH/HRZ (Computing Center) Gaussstr. 20 D-42097 Wuppertal (Germany) Tel. +49-202-4392807, Fax +49-202-4392910 [EMAIL PROTECTED]