Firstly, as I'll explain later, I temporarily don't have access to my regular mail
client or Pop address, so I subscribed and am sending this from
a Webmail account. I hope it doesn't produce HTML mail, like Hotmail's default. If it
does, please let me know and I'll try to figure out how to
fix it.
OK - this is a long story, but it's probably of no real interest to anyone but me, so
here's the short version - and I hope I don't leave out
relevant details:
After a Mozilla crash, I lost my X server. I tried startx from a command promt and
got:
execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
giving up
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error
I then discovered that the link to X pointed to a nonexistant file, because ls -la
/etc/X11/X gave this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 18 2003 /etc/X11/X ->
../../usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86*
but the file /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 didn't exist. I have no idea why. Since I have an
additional partition with the same version of Mandrake
installed, I decided to take a chance and copy the missing file. That resulted in X
starting to load, but aborting with error messages refering to
missing modules. I'll include the log at the end of this post.
I then tried re-installing XFree86 from RPM but that didn't change anything. I even
tried RPM --erase and then re-installed X - still no luck. So I
decided that this would be a good time to update from MDK91 to MDK92 and hoped that a
new version of X would solve the problem. However I'm still
getting the same error messages.
Before I include the error messages, let me just say that this is not a hardware
problem and probably not a problem with X but with some parameters
that somehow got screwed up after the original Mozilla crash. The reason I say this is
that, as I mentioned, I have an additional installation of
MDK on a seperate partition and it still runs X with no problems. I even updated it
also from MDK91 to MDK92 with no problems. In case anyone is
wondering why I don't just use the working version, the reason is that it's on a small
partition with no room for anything but the most basic
utilities - I don't even have room for sendmail, Mozilla, or anything. And, of course,
my **normal** partition has everything I've set up and use.
BTW - I have a full backup of everything, but I have no idea where to look for
whatever files have been screwed up. I did find some similar errors
on GOOGLE, but nothing that helped.
OK - here's the log I get when I try startx (after having re-installed everything).
The relevant lines are near the end, but I'm including the
whole log:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 12 March 2003
Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 5 15:52:42 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(==) ServerLayout "layout1"
(**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1"
(**) | |-->Device "device1"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1"
(**) Option "XkbCompat" "default+group_led"
(**) XKB: compat: "default+group_led"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) XKB: model: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us,il"
(**) XKB: layout: "us,il"
(**) Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
(**) XKB: options: "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1"
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
Using vt 7
(--) using VT number 7
(II) Open APM successful
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap
(II) UnloadModule: "bitmap"
(EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata
(II) UnloadModule: "pcidata"
(EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0)
Fatal server error:
Unable to load required base modules, Exiting...
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the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
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TIA
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