On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:05:38PM -0700, Jay Mazzetta wrote: > I have tried a couple times to get Xorg to work > without any success. I have followed the BLFS book as > carefully as I can, once with creating the shadow > directory and once skipping that step. Same result > both times. here's what I get: > > root:/usr/X11R6/bin# ./startx > ./startx: line 132: xauth: command not found > ./startx: line 133: xauth: command not found > ./startx: line 132: xauth: command not found > ./startx: line 133: xauth: command not found > ./startx: line 141: xinit: command not found > ./startx: line 144: xauth: command not found > root:/usr/X11R6/bin# > > Any and all help will be appreciated. > Thanks, > James You need to have /usr/X11R6/bin in $PATH. For the future, please consider mentioning which version of the book you are following - at a minimum it may stop people like me from skimming your post and telling you that you need the xauth app in modular X ;)
By this stage in building a system, you should be somewhat familiar with the tools you have created - 'file ./startx' should tell you that it is a shell script, and then you can use 'view' or your favourite $EDITOR to look at what the script is doing. Hopefully, if you do that, you will see that it is just calling commands, and then 'find -name bin/xauth' should show that the command exists somewhere, so it must just be a question of getting the path correct. Alternatively, that will show you that the command does NOT exist and the problem is something else, like a missing xauth app (in case it isn't clear to you, using /usr/X11R6 is a strong hint to me that you used Xorg-6.9 or earlier). HTH, Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
