> "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.
I am sorry. To generate this message, I logged in as a local user and typed
xinit. I have an .xinitrc file which has one call to create an xterm and
calls fvwm2.
>
> 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=
I checked that and I have no references to X at all.
Vaughn
>
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Received on Mon Jan 29 2001 - 12:24:35 GMT