On 28 Apr 00, at 14:11, sagar natarajan wrote:
> after configuring xf86config
> and running startx
> the message i get is
> execve failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 13)
> xinit:Server error
Are you getting errno 13 or 3?? and does it also show something like
error 111?
Some things you could try:
1.See that the file/directory permissions in /etc/X11/X
Should be read and executable from root
2.Most of the time, this error is due to teh default fonts not
starting. Try reinstalling xfs again.
To know what a particular errno is, try this bit of code
/* whatstheerror.c */
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int num;
char *Use = { "Usage:\n whatstheerror <num>" };
if(argc == 2 && (num=(int)strtol(argv[1],NULL,0)) )
puts(strerror(num));
else
puts(Use);
return 0;
}
BTW, how did you get that lovely staircase effect?
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