On 06 Apr 1999q, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > I upgraded (at least, with CD 1) from 2.0 -> 2.1 last night, and > everything seemed to be fine. I quit dselect, fired up X, and while > running X, looked at some notes I had made preparing for the upgrade. > > I purged xbase, since it's been claimed that it's no longer needed. > Everything still ran fine. I powered things off for the night and went to > bed. I got up this morning, powered up, logged on, and then: > > ------------------------------------------------------- > $ startx > > _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. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > What the heck? Did I jump the gun on removing xbase? Any idea what's up, > or how to find what's up? >
Now that you say this, I realize I had just the same experience (twice, in fact, on different machines). Something wrong with the install advice, I think. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
