Your PATH looks fine, so lets's see what you get from:

ls -la /usr/X11R6/bin/X*


On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 14:20, Julian F.Woods wrote:
> Many thanks. I tried the various options you suggested and this gave me  
> the following:
> 
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% printenv PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
> X11R6/bin
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -rootless
> 
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  no server  
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH
> 
> Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
> that "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of  
> server
> for your display.  Possible server names include:
> 
>      XFree86     XFree86 displays
>      XDarwin         Darwin/Mac OS X IOKit displays
>      XDarwinQuartz   Mac OS X Quartz displays
>      XDarwinStartup  Auto-select between XDarwin and XDarwinQuartz
> 
> giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X  
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -fullscreen
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  no server  
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH
> 
> Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
> that "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of  
> server
> for your display.  Possible server names include:
> 
>      XFree86     XFree86 displays
>      XDarwin         Darwin/Mac OS X IOKit displays
>      XDarwinQuartz   Mac OS X Quartz displays
>      XDarwinStartup  Auto-select between XDarwin and XDarwinQuartz
> 
> xinit:  Server error.
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -quartz
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  no server  
> "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH
> 
> Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path and
> that "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of  
> server
> for your display.  Possible server names include:
> 
>      XFree86     XFree86 displays
>      XDarwin         Darwin/Mac OS X IOKit displays
>      XDarwinQuartz   Mac OS X Quartz displays
>      XDarwinStartup  Auto-select between XDarwin and XDarwinQuartz
> 
> xinit:  Server error.
> [Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
> 
> Please let me know what the next step might be.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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