1. Is this the complete error output (that is, does it match what is in "/var/log/XFree86.0.log")? If not, please send complete output, as the message tells you to.
2. The sockets the message refers to are probably the local Unix sockets that the server uses to accept connections from clients. What does "netstat -an" report? Are there listings that resemble this one:
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 427 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
3. Does the /tmp directory exist (this is a long shot, as it is very standard as a part of Linux systems)? Is it mode 777?
4. Does your kernel support Unix domain sockets? If you compiled your own, it is an option under "Networking" in the "make menuconfig" method of configuring, for 2.4.x kernels. If you are using any stock Slackware kernel, it probably supports Unix sockets. If you are using one from BasicLinux ... well, the BasicLinux home page says it supports X installs, so I suppose the kernel includes what is needed (but I have no way actually to know).
5. BasicLinux has a page that lists the Slackware packages needed to run X. Its URL is
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/bas-x.html
Did you include everything this page says to install?
That's about all I can think of without more info. Hope it helps.
At 09:23 PM 11/12/02 -0500, james miller wrote:
Hello all:
I posted to the list some time ago about problems I was having getting X
running. That was on another computer, and I never managed to resolve the
problems. Now, I'm confronting the problem again and it's high time I figured
out what I'm doing wrong and fix it. And, I stand to learn alot about X and
the way the gui works under Linux in the process - knowing, at the moment,
virtually nothing.
Right now, I am trying to install a minimal Slackware (8.1) version via a
routine developed by the creator of Basiclinux. The minimal install does not
have X installed or configured, but it does give one access to the Slackware
pkgtool and, via this, to the possibility for installing whatever packages one
wishes from the Slackware CD. I used this routine to install XFree86 4.2. So
far as I could tell, I installed all necessary packages: I may well have
missed something important and am simply not sure if my problem may not come
down to something like this.
In any case, after installing XFree86 and associated packages (e.g., fonts), I
ran xf86config from the command line. I selected refresh rates that my monitor
seems likely to support (it is a 14" Epson extended vga) and my video card (S3
Trio 64v+). When I try to run "startx," the X server crashes with the
following report dumped to /var/log/:
##############################################################
_XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for tcp
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/darkstar:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for tcp
_XSERVTransSocketOpen: socket() failed for local
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for local
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for local/darkstar:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for local
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already
running
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
###########################################################
Can someone help point me in the right direction for resolving this problem
and getting a working X install?
Thanks, James
PS This is an old test computer - 486 DX4 100 with 40MB RAM and 1.3 GB HD.
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