Ken, thanks for the response. I have added the correct path to xauth. Tried to do the same with xinit. now I get only one error saying cannot execute binary. however, xinit is in the same directory as xauth... I'm lost.
--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
