Hi,
I have suse 8.2 prof.
I wanted to update Nvidia driver I left the Xserver, but cannot get back to X server! Iam running runlevel 1
Command startx just generates this message:

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 201: xauth: command not found
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 208: xinit: command not found


I understand that xauth means something like X authorisation and xinit X initialisation
I didn't make any update of the driver so nothing should have changed.
Thanks very much

Not just in time, but at least anytime...

The SystemV differs from BSD alike init in some things:

in BSD alike enviroments like Slackware, freeBSD (surprised?) etc, system gets initialized from few common initscripts in a single directory.

in SystemV fammily for each runlevel a separate directory gets parsed by init, so only runlevel-characteristic scripts are run.


SuSE is a SystemV alike linux, so elevate runlevel to at least 3 and then try startx. Perhaps X needs some more services (xauth x-font-server, etc) to run on that distro-release?

Try entering the command init 5

I have a problem with startx
i used sudo apt-get install initx to install window X
after installation i tried to startx but it said that "X" is missing from /etc/X11
where can i find that file? or what have i missed out during the installation?