well, I am close. X is now starting up -- you can NOT start X without
being able to run a keyboard compiler when it starts -- and xterm is
running, and doing this:
1201 write(2, "Failed to open input method\n", 28) = 28
which boils down to it can't find this:
1201 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/xlibi18n.so.2",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
which does not exist on my machine anyway. xterm does come up, and as
I type into it, the window size -- or the X display? -- changes quite
a bit -- it is changing resolution I suppose -- but no keyboard input
makes it to the app.
I had hoped 9term would work but it can't open /dev/pts/0, even
thought devpts is mounted. Some trick I am missing. It's weird running
linux without any rc scripts having been run. I have yet to use the
word fun, however.
it's interesting to run this stuff by hand, and just see what a tangle
web we have weave'd over 15 years. It's been a while since I watched x
apps this closely. Xterm opens about 50 libs, while failing to open
about 300.
ron
