X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen



I have a problem that I do not understand.

At the prompt I give the command startx

I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist.

Copy the file from another system and I get

X server already running on display :0
/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open 
/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist


I have not knowingly made any changes to this machine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

/Leslie

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Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar


At the prompt I give the command startx

I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist.

Copy the file from another system and I get


copying files instead of installing packages isn't bright idea, unless you 
copy complete /usr/local tree.

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Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen



2012-07-21 18:42, Wojciech Puchar skrev:


At the prompt I give the command startx

I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist.

Copy the file from another system and I get


copying files instead of installing packages isn't bright idea, unless
you copy complete /usr/local tree.
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I understand that, but I needed to approach the problem some way to get 
some information.


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Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Copy the file from another system and I get

X server already running on display :0
/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open 
/usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist

this is an answer i think
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Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:24:26 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
 
 
 I have a problem that I do not understand.
 
 At the prompt I give the command startx
 
 I get a message that /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 does not exist.

This means your ~/.xinitrc contains a call to launch Xfce 4,
typically the last command, prefixed by exec, in that file.
It seems you don't have Xfce 4 installed.



 Copy the file from another system and I get
 
 X server already running on display :0
 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open 
 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist
 
 I have not knowingly made any changes to this machine.

It's not sufficient to copy just this start script (out of
the Xfce 4 software package). You need to _completely_ install
it, including all dependencies. You can use pkg_add -r to
do this, or use the xfce metaport per make install.



 Any suggestions?

Just install Xfce 4 in one of the usual ways.




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SV: Re: X server already running on display :0

2012-07-21 Thread Leslie Jensen
True! I copied this file as well and now xfce starts as usual. 
/Leslie

Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl skrev: Copy the file from 
another system and I get

 X server already running on display :0
 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: Can't open 
 /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: File or catalog does not exist
this is an answer i think
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