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Startx failing in FreeBSD

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I've install gnome2, xorg, and xinit (should xorg have done that for me?), and startx yields: "xinit: unable to run server "/usr/local/bin/X": No such file or directory" I checked in the directory, and startx, xpath, and xinit are all there Am I still missing dependencies? If so, which ones? Both the gnome2 and x11 installations took a lifetime and a half so I thought they got everything... (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 02/02/2013

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That translated as I agree, let the default X reads / etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and runs twm = Terminal 3 + hours. But why "startx" command makes it an ideal and "xinit" false?I agree, let by default X reads / etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and starts twm = 3 terminals + hours.

Hello all !

Today I've updated my father's old laptop's OS from Lubuntu 12.04 to Lubuntu 12.10 (by Update Manager). Now when I'm trying to boot it up it freeze after splash screen. Runlevel 3 -same. Runlevel 1 - uff, it works. Checked some logs, but no luck in finding fatal errors (but I'm just learning, so I might miss some).

Good, it seems solved using startx and xorg-server and xorg-xinit reinstallation (xinit still doesn't work). Not sure what went wrong but now it works! Thank you very much 65kid.

fulmare https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=46360

2012-11-06T16:09:59Z

Hmmm, I think I may be running out of ideas.You could try to run xinit instead of startx, maybe it destroys some environment stuff (which xinit shouldn't). If xinit throws the same error as startx, I think I really am out of ideas :-/Regards,javex

javex https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=55602

2012-08-21T09:58:02Z

OpemSuse boots to cli only 2 years 34 weeks ago

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Code:

~# startx hostname: Hostname loockup failure xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.5983

X: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libudev.so.0: invalid ELF header giving up

xinit: connection error (refused111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (e

@lifeafter2am  I read that, xorg_server and xorg_apps were already installed, since I installed xorg (as in, the whole xorg package).

Have a look at this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158684 it might be related.Summary is his problem was using xinit instead of startx - do you use startx or xinit?

thesystematic https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=68174

2013-03-02T00:53:37Z

Startx is just a script that calls xinit - you can look at it and see all the crap it does - but the relevant part for this is that it starts a dbus session.In your xinitrc your exec line shoud beexec dbus-launch --exit-with-session <WM>where <WM> is replace by your window manager.

Trilby https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=54694

2012-12-08T12:42:36Z

Xorg not working on Arch Linux 18 weeks 4 days ago

I installed Arch i686 on a VirtualBox VM (I have an nvidia GT610). I ran the following commmand as root:

pacman -S nvidia

After installation and rebooting, I ran

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm

then

startx

I got a fatal error saying No screens found. Any help as to what should I do ?