X doesn't start
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon May 26 16:55:19 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 16:20 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:05:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:17 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 21:21:23 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [....]
> >> > This has been said before, but it's worth repeating: in F9 it's often
> >> > better simply to not have an xorg.conf file at all and let the driver
> >> > work it out for itself.
> >>
> >> Then thank you for saying it again; it's news to me.
> >>
> >> What's the best way to go about not having it? Simply go to /etc/
> >> X11 and rename it something like NOTxorg.conf? Use an rm command?
> >> Comment out something that points to it somewhere? Or what?
> >
> > Just move it to one side and restart X.
>
> I renamed it to NOTxorg.conf, which is what I presume you mean;
> tried startx, unsuccessfully; exited back to user, and tried startx,
> again unsuccessfully; rebooted; and got very different error messages
> during boot up from those before. So I logged in as user, and tried
> startx another time, again getting very different error messages --
> including one that seemed to be saying X was running but illegal to
> connect to!
>
> Here are some fairly copious excerpts, omitting long strings
> especially hard to scribble and type from. (But I'll go back and slog
> through those too if they help.)
>
> =============================================
> startx
> xauth: creating new authority file ...
> .... SocketCreateListener() failed
> .... server already running
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets -- make sure an X server isn't
> already running
>
> giving up
> xinit: connection refused (errno 11): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
> ================================================
>
> You see why I say *seems* to mean -- parts of that look to be
> saying X is running, and parts that it's not, any yet other parts that I
> should check -- somehow ...
>
> Otoh, my hunch says this is progress, or at least gets us off
> ground zero. So what next?
pgrep -fl X
will tell you if an X server is running. Rebooting will make sure to get
rid of it. Alternatively, do "init 3; init 5" from a console.
If it still doesn't work, check for errors (lines marked EE)
in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
poc
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