Hello, I'm running into a problem which seems to show up often in the mailing list. I think I've tried all the suggestions there. When I use startx to start an X server, I get the message:
+ xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. + [ x != x ] I only run into this problem as nonadministrator. I have /usr/X11R6/bin in my path, and my Xfree installation includes XFree86-xserv. Before I discovered that nonadministrators have this problem, I had my own ~/.xinitrc. It was identical to the system default except at the end, where it called my own script to start my own xclients. To debug the problem, I changed line 1 of .xinitrc to "#!/bin/sh -x" to echo all commands, and also explicit diagnostic "echo" commands at the top. Since none of this echoing gets printed out, I conclude that ~/.xinitrc is never reached. To further troubleshoot why this problem only afflicts nonadministrators, I got rid of ~/.xinitrc in both cases. The discrepancy persists, even though both are using the system .xinitrc. I checked that the relevant files were readable and executable by everyone: -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 ???????? Users 8704 Jan 21 2002 /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit -rwxrwxrwx+ 1 ???????? Users 667 Jun 27 04:08 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc The timestamp of xinitrc is recent because I made it run according to "sh -x" for troubleshooting. But as can be seen from the error message above, it seems that xinitrc doesn't even get a chance to run (i.e. same as ~/.xinitrc). I tried to put "sh -x" in the xinit program and find where things go wrong in there. But xinit is actually the binary executable xinit.exe. It took a while to figure out why I couldn't use "less" or "cat" on /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit. Because it is not a script, I can't stick in diagnostic statements. I tried startxwin.bat and xwin: $ startxwin.bat Access is denied. startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP $ xwin In both cases, nothing happens. Preferrably, I would like to get startx working. Thanks if anyone can advise on what to try next to find the problem. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6