[newbie] X won't start!
X Graphical Interface won't start! It won't start on the new kernel I'm trying to figure out, or my old one(see my other thread). The only thing I've changed is telling Harddrake not to start on boot, because H.J. Bathoorn told me it would rid of an error I was receiving at boot. Is this the problem? If so, how do I enable it? --Marc
Re: [newbie] X won't start!
- Original Message - From: Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't start! On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:21, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Simon Kitching [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't start! On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 16:54, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't start! On Tuesday 17 February 2004 08:26 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: X Graphical Interface won't start! It won't start on the new kernel I'm trying to figure out, or my old one(see my other thread). The only thing I've changed is telling Harddrake not to start on boot, because H.J. Bathoorn told me it would rid of an error I was receiving at boot. Is this the problem? If so, how do I enable it? --Marc Could you copy your x Config file here? Where exactly can I find that? XFree86 (the standard X implementation for linux) is configured in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (assuming you have version 4.x of xfree86, which you almost certainly do). Of course if you only have text-mode access to your operating system, it might be difficult to post. I presume you've got a second machine you're using to send emails at the moment? Regards, Simon I've got several boxes, but this one is dual booted with Windows XP. I'm not even certain if I'll be able to access the files, but I'll try when I get a chance. If you're using FAT-format disk partitions for windows then you can copy it from linux into that partition. Or otherwise the xf86 config file should be small enough to go on a floppy. You might want to try dmesg /tmp/dmesg.txt and post the contents of that too. The dmesg program dumps log output generated by the kernel while booting. I don't know if it also holds any X startup problems or not. And what happens when you try to start X anyway? What command do you use, and what output do you get? [PS: I'm no expert on X; I've learnt a little as the result of some bitter struggles in the past..] Cheers, Simon Okay I took the time to write down all the errors. The first I received repeated many times: Warning: Symbol map for key redefined Using last definition for conflicting fields. Inside the was: AB03 -- AB10, BKSL, LCTL, and SPCE. There could have been more that was bumped off the screen. Next came: Errors from xkbcomp not fatal to X server Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) 0X X server :0.0 after 0 requests(0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. My Xfree86 config is normal, and the abnormal error during boot was that I have no space left on my root partition(which I was going to make bigger today...when suddenly this happened). Any ideas? Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] X won't start!
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 18:18, Marc Resnick wrote: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104(connection reset by peer) 0X X server :0.0 after 0 requests(0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. My Xfree86 config is normal, and the abnormal error during boot was that I have no space left on my root partition(which I was going to make bigger today...when suddenly this happened). Ahh .. root partition full. How did it get full? Were you in the middle of installing some RPMs, perhaps? Upgrading your system? It looks to me like X can't start the font server, so gives up. That could well be due to an incomplete upgrade (due to running out of disk during an rpm install) or maybe you have /tmp on your root partition and the font server needs some working space. Try: df -k to see what partitions you have mounted, and how much space they have. If any of the important partitions are full, I would recommend deleting or compressing some unimportant stuff to see if that helps. Well, it's worth trying anyway... I really can't see what harddrake would have to do with any of this, though. Are you absolutely certain that it worked immediately before you disabled harddrake, and stopped working immediately afterward? What command did you use to disable harddrake? Regards, Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] X won't start default font fixed
The FIX for this problem is to start XFS! Try: service start xfs From a prompt... Tail /var/log/messages for any errors... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Wagner Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] X won't start default font fixed Hi I got home from work today and turned my computer on, and was confronted by the error message could not open default font path unix/:1 Fatal server error: could not open default font fixed and X would not start. I have been told that one way to fix this problem, at least temporarily, is to comment out the FontPath unix/:-1 line in /etc/X11/Xf86Config. However I have not been able to access the file from the command line. Pico is not not installed. I think I have opened vim from the command line but have no idea how to use it. Is there anothe editor I could use that doesn't run on X that is likely to be installed on my system? Does anyone know of any other solutions? Is this something that could be fixed from the failsafe option from Lilo? I have never used that either. Thanks, SW
[newbie] X won't start default font fixed
Hi I got home from work today and turned my computer on, and was confronted by the error message could not open default font path unix/:1 Fatal server error: could not open default font fixed and X would not start. I have been told that one way to fix this problem, at least temporarily, is to comment out the FontPath unix/:-1 line in /etc/X11/Xf86Config. However I have not been able to access the file from the command line. Pico is not not installed. I think I have opened vim from the command line but have no idea how to use it. Is there anothe editor I could use that doesn't run on X that is likely to be installed on my system? Does anyone know of any other solutions? Is this something that could be fixed from the failsafe option from Lilo? I have never used that either. Thanks, SW
Re: [newbie] x won't start
Stephen Hansen-Sturm wrote: I cannot start x. I am using Mandrake 7.2, and I have XFree86 3.36 and 4.01 both installed. The computer is an IBM ThinkPad 770z, This may be a long shot, but I have had similar problems starting X, as well as other screen resolution problems, stemming from incomplete installations. It took me a while to figure it out, but in desperation, I would re-install and notice that the installation took a lot longer the second or third time and offered several options that didn't present themselves initially.I don't know why this happens, but I know that it has happened several times to me, never on my desktop, but only on my Toshiba Satellite Pro notebook. It may be some kind of notebook specific quirk. I'm not sure if this will help you, but I just thought I would mention it for consideration.Maybe re-installing will be one more alternative to consider before giving up, if nothing else works. ShalomOut Chal Registered Linux user #217118 Nothing is impossible, to the man who will not listen to reason.
[newbie] x won't start
I cannot start x. I am using Mandrake 7.2, and I have XFree86 3.36 and 4.01 both installed. The computer is an IBM ThinkPad 770z, and it has a Trident Cyber 9397/DVD graphics card. The monitor is 14.1 inches, and it should support 1024x768 resolution. Others using my model have reported success under XF86 3.36, and I have modified and tweaked my XFdrake file countless times. It still doesn`t work (the screen goes black when X tries to start), and I am getting desperate. I am a newbie and probably can`t use the computer for much else unless I have a desktop environment. I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me. ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
Re: [newbie] x won't start
First go easy on the settings. Did you try running 640x480 and 256 colors first? To see if the actual setup will run? If that works, you can work your way up in the settings to where it will still work. Otherwise you should ask the others you mention, to show you how they did it. Paul I cannot start x. I am using Mandrake 7.2, and I have XFree86 3.36 and 4.01 both installed. The computer is an IBM ThinkPad 770z, and it has a Trident Cyber 9397/DVD graphics card. The monitor is 14.1 inches, and it should support 1024x768 resolution. Others using my model have reported success under XF86 3.36, and I have modified and tweaked my XFdrake file countless times. It still doesn`t work (the screen goes black when X tries to start), and I am getting desperate. I am a newbie and probably can`t use the computer for much else unless I have a desktop environment. I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me. ___ Visit http://www.visto.com/info, your free web-based communications center. Visto.com. Life on the Dot.
[newbie] X won't start - Font server error
Hi! X won't start. There's something wrong with the font server. I get something like unable to load default font fixed... Switching to runlevel3 Sending the TERM signal... (Don't want to attach the log, about 20k) What can I do? Thanks, Martin _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] X won't start - Font server error
Hi! X won't start. There's something wrong with the font server. I get something like unable to load default font fixed... Switching to runlevel3 Sending the TERM signal... (Don't want to attach the log, about 20k) What can I do? Thanks, Martin _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] X won't start
I've been running Mandrake 7.0 for a while, I'm dual-booting with Windows using a floppy boot (at the moment). Recently I went to boot Mandrake and it boots fine up to the point where it flips into graphics mode, where it would hang and the screen would go black. I managed to boot just to a shell login prompt and ran xf86config, which I thought was the right thing to do. However, now it just boots to a shell login prompt every time. If I do "startx" it freezes (until I do a ctrl-Z and then kill the process). How do I get back into the graphical login (and get it working?) The only thing I know that's changed since the last time it worked was I added a firewall to my system, so I know that I need to change my IP address and TCP/IP settings, but I don't remember how to do that from the shell, the desktop would be so much easier. I really don't know if this is related to my problem (it would be really weak if your desktop quits just because you have a bad IP address). Any help is appreciated! -Todd
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try this. Go to ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/ once there go to the contrib directory and download the XFree86-4.0 RPMS. You will also need to install Xaw3d-devel and the xinitrc rpm from that directory. Don't worry about the Xconfigurator it won't work. You have to use xf86setup. Anyway install all that. Make a sym-link in /etc/X11 like this 'ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 X'. You can also stop running xfs (if you currently run it) as it is built into XFree86 4.0. This is what I did and it works fine. The last time I downloaded the binaries from XFree86.org I had many problems also. Waiting for RPMS is the best answer. Luckily they are out. -- Original Message -- From: "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:18 -0500 no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you tried "xstart" or "startx" ? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
[newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it have you tried "xstart" or "startx"? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate ithave you tried "xstart" or "startx"? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate ithave you tried "xstart" or "startx"? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no i didn't do an rpm install i downloaded the files from xfree86.org - Original Message - From: Mike Tracy Holt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! I haven't had much luck either with 4.0, if you did an rpm install, you can just go back, uninstall and reinstall 3.3.6 from the disk. (At least that would save an entire system reinstallation.) Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. sorry I can't tell you how to fix the problem :-o - Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use of the kill command or sever shutdown i have trie dto startx using the startx command - Original Message - From: _-+Richard Kim=-_ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate ithave you tried "xstart" or "startx"? w/o quotes? that should start it once more. try again and reply once more.
