On Monday January 05 2004 10:16 am, shlomo solomon wrote: > 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 Mandrake 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... > > > 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". > Please report problems to xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > TIA Do you run a firewall?? Sounds like someone got access to your computer and deleted your X stuff. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
