I was attempting to change permissions in a user account on a SuSE 7.1 partition and managed to kill the Xserver, I don't have the faintest idea as to how, or how to fix it. The messages I receive when I attempt to startx are: Fatal server error: Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" 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@xfree86.org. giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. How do I restore X? Thanks in advance.
On Thursday 14 February 2002 00:35, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I was attempting to change permissions in a user account on a SuSE 7.1 partition and managed to kill the Xserver, I don't have the faintest idea as to how, or how to fix it.
The messages I receive when I attempt to startx are:
Fatal server error: Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log"
Does this file exist? If not, create it (as root): prompt# touch /var/log/XFree86.0.log If it does, what are the permissions? on my system: jon@a13:~> ll /var/log/XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20612 Feb 14 07:05 /var/log/XFree86.0.log
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@xfree86.org.
giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
Not too sure about this, but maybe this relates to XFree86.0.log isn't there so that some process fails to start? giving:
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
HTH Jon
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