[TriLUG] New Mandrake 8.1 install. but no X. HUH?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 22:38, Justin Johnson wrote:
> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
> giving up.
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3):Server error.
> 
Hmmm... No /etc/X11/X...

lovelace tigger ~ 195_ rpm -qf /etc/X11/X
file /etc/X11/X is not owned by any package
lovelace tigger ~ 196_ ls -l /etc/X11/X
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           27 Oct  3 17:58 /etc/X11/X ->
../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86*
lovelace tigger ~ 197_ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 
XFree86-server-4.1.0-17mdk
lovelace tigger ~ 198_ 

Check to see if XFree86-server is installed.  If it's
not, use urpmi to install it too.  Apparently, XFree86-server
depends on XFree86, but not the other way around.
Sorry, I should have realized that... :-(

Sinner is right, though.  You'll need to configure
X before it will work correctly...

> So that's where it is. If it's too much a pita to chase this I think I'll
> just reinstall.

I'm not sure you need to do that just yet...  If this doesn't
work, however...

Tanner
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