Hi all,
I had this problem today as well, a new Sid install on a Thinkpad T42.
It turns out that one of the xserver-xorg packages at some point creates
this not-very-helpful symlink:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-11-25 23:43 /etc/X11/X -> /bin/true
Quite irritating, but at least the fix is simp
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I would start by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and choosing the SVGA
> driver (even if you have an nVidia or ATI or other card that is
> supported). Then try running "startx". If that doesn't work, try the VGA
> driver.
>
> Both of these options
Dear,
I do not think so.
While I used `apt-get install xorg`, same problem.
Thanks.
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
installed.
I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
/v
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
installed.
I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
/var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
Dear,
I have the same problem on
Dear,
I have the same problem on two new installed box. I do not know what to
do.
And on an old box which upgraded to 7.3, it crashed a lot, and
switching to tty just gives a beautiful colored screen
Thanks.
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What happens if you just try running X alone, as in:
# X &
The same thing happened running X directly
Maybe try redirecting the errors to a file:
# X 2> errors.txt &
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On Nov 20, 2007 6:55 PM, Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What happens if you just try running X alone, as in:
> >
> > # X &
> >
>
> The same thing happened running X directly
>
> I am having problems even googling this. It seems like a very rar
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What happens if you just try running X alone, as in:
>
> # X &
>
The same thing happened running X directly
I am having problems even googling this. It seems like a very rare
situation and I am not sure what package is causing this so I am
conidering re-in
Peter Smerdon wrote:
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/syslog?
nothing appears in syslog with the startx command, however everytime I
use gdm I get:
Nov 20 17:51:54 laptop gdm[4562]: WARNING: Failed to start X server
several times
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you see anything interesting in /var/log/syslog?
>
nothing appears in syslog with the startx command, however everytime I
use gdm I get:
Nov 20 17:51:54 laptop gdm[4562]: WARNING: Failed to start X server
several times in a short time period; disab
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 16:45:45 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Florian Kulzer writes:
[...]
> > Is your local loopback interface up and working? Check the output of
> > "/sbin/ifconfig".
[...]
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> in
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:28:45 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
>> Jörg-Volker Peetz writes:
>>
>> > You need one of the xserver-xorg-video packages. There seems to be no X
>> > server on your machine.
>
> [...]
>
>> I installed xserver-xorg-video-all b
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 11:28:45 -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz writes:
>
> > You need one of the xserver-xorg-video packages. There seems to be no X
> > server on your machine.
[...]
> I installed xserver-xorg-video-all but still have the same problem and
> no log file.
Is
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Smerdon wrote:
>> I am starting x via gdm but if I use the startx command on tty1 I get:
>> ,
>> | giving up.
>> | xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): Unable to connect to X server
>> | xinit: No such processs (errno 3): Server error.
>> `
>
Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You need one of the xserver-xorg-video packages. There seems to be no X
> server on your machine.
> --
> Regards,
> Jörg-Volker.
I installed xserver-xorg-video-all but still have the same problem and
no log file.
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Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
> installed.
>
> I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
>
> here are the packages related to X that I have installe
Peter Smerdon wrote:
I am starting x via gdm but if I use the startx command on tty1 I get:
,
| giving up.
| xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): Unable to connect to X server
| xinit: No such processs (errno 3): Server error.
`
and again, no log at all of anything in /var/log/
You
Hello, I have a brand new HP pavillion laptop with debian unstable amd64
installed.
I cannot get x to start, but more worrying than that is that
/var/log/Xorg.0.log does not exist, and never gets generated.
here are the packages related to X that I have installed:
,
| ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3
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