"Vaughn Eisler" <veisler_at_dynamicsoft.com> writes:
> I wanted to thank everyone for helping me out this morning about starting up
> fvwm2 and the permission problems with /dev/kbd. Permissions were not being
> setup correctly upon login to Solaris.
>
> However, I am now running into another issue that you may be able to assist
> me with. I suppose it may be an X problem vs. an fvwm problem, but I
> thought I would try here first.
>
> When attempting to start up X via xinit, I am getting the error message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already
> running
>
> Unfortunately, I am not running another version of X. I am running Solaris
> 2.8, which is running its own Desktop Login. However, I have disabled that
> and am logging in via the command line.
>
> Any assistance you can provide is appreciated.
You should tell us what you did and what message was generated.
You may want to check the permissions in /tmp, the Solaris X server
sets up some fifos there for X.
pork> ls -al /tmp/.X*
/tmp/.X11-pipe:
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 dane root 176 Jan 17 11:21 ./
drwxrwxrwt 8 root sys 2931 Jan 29 12:59 ../
prw-rw-rw- 1 dane root 0 Jan 17 11:21 X0|
/tmp/.X11-unix:
total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 dane root 176 Jan 17 11:21 ./
drwxrwxrwt 8 root sys 2931 Jan 29 12:59 ../
srwxrwxrwx 1 dane root 0 Jan 17 11:21 X0=
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Received on Mon Jan 29 2001 - 12:09:08 GMT