John Bradley wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Thank you for your prompt response. As for learning my lesson, here's > hoping!! > > The message displayed when trying to "startx" is as follows: > > "xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2517 > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH > > Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path and that > "X" is a program or a link to the right type of server for your > display. Possible server names include: > > Xorg X.org displays > > xinit: Server error." > > Please explain "Booting to init 3".... You probably don't need to do that... But, it means that when are booting hit "return" while the boot splash screen is up and use "e" to edit the kernel parameters to add "3" to the end of the line. This will not attempt to start X server. Again, probably not needed. > > Cheers > JB > > > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:58:08 +1000, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> FWIW.... >> >> Booting to init 3 and going a >> >> yum groupupdate "X Window System" >> >> may get you up and operational. >> >> Along with (potentionally).... >> >> yum groupupdate "GNOME Desktop Environment" >> >> and >> >> yum groupupdate "KDE (K Desktop Environment)" >> >> > -- Whatever doesn't succeed in two months and a half in California will never succeed. -- Rev. Henry Durant, founder of the University of California -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
