Subject: Re: YDL 2.0: installing X by hand
From: Hollis (hollis-lists@austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 11:26:04 MDT
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 11:16, you wrote:
> I installed a bunch of XFree86 packages, and got startx, but
> a dependency appears to be missing from the RPMs. Specifically,
> startx doesn't work. I have XFree86-4.0.2-6e.ppc.rpm installed, and
> its dependencies satisfied.
That's correct, you are not missing dependancies.
> This is the error I got last week when I ran startx (same
>
> error as a normal user):
> >[root@www /root]# startx
> >xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
> >
> >execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
At this point you might begin to wonder why /etc/X11/X couldn't be run. That
file should be a symlink: /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 . Perhaps
the rpm's post install script does not create this link, but the installer
does.
-Hollis
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