In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MJ Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|| After installing 2.0 clean onto my PC, attempts to start up any
|| window manager fails, as does just trying to start an xterm.
||
|| This output is from an attempt to start up fvwm2:
What are you trying to do? Are you trying to run
* fvwm2,
* xterm, or
* startx
from
* within an X session?
* a (virtual) console?
I'll assume startx from a console.
|| -----------------------------------------------------
||
||
|| [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> Unknown option: `:0'
||
|| [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> Unknown option: `-auth'
||
|| [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> Unknown option: `/root/.Xauthority'
"/root/.Xauthority" really should be "$HOME/.Xauthority". Is $HOME /root?
Is fvwm2 running as root? You say below you're not doing this as root.
|| Fvwm Version 2.0.46 Usage:
||
|| X [-d dpy] [-debug] [-f config_cmd] [-s] [-blackout] [-version] [-h]
Hey? Fvwm2 seems to think "$0" = "X"? Combined with the /root above,
I think your system starts fvwm2 where it should start the X server.
Check out /etc/X11/Xserver:
$ head -1 /etc/X11/Xserver
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64
$
My guess is that line in your version reads /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2, or
maybe /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit.
If it's okay (i.e. it contains the X server of your choice, not a window
manager), you may have symlinked X to fvwm2. Check:
$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X*
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4344 Jun 20 1997 /usr/X11R6/bin/X
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1617852 Nov 22 1996
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64
$
|| [FVWM][main]: <<ERROR>> can't open display
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
|| giving up.
|| xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
|| xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
||
|| -----------------------------------------------------
||
|| Any suggestions? XF86Setup seems to go OK, though it may have been done as
|| root, but I'm trying to start my windows as under my userid. I'm not
|| trying to run xdm, just doing a startx.
It could also be that your startx script is at fault. It is passing
the arguments
:0 -auth /root/.Xauthority
to the client script (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc or ~/.xinitrc) instead of
the X server.
Try to do
/bin/sh -x /usr/X11R6/bin/startx 2>/tmp/startx.stderr
to find out what goes on.
Good luck. Vincent.
