I have just reinstalled Linux and now I get the following error whenever I try to start XWindows:

execve fails for etc/X11/X (errno 2)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

This has never happened before. I was able to get XWindows working BEFORE I reinstalled Linux and I have not made any system or BIOS changes since the reinstall. I don't know why this suddenly started happening. Any ideas?

This could be a few things, but a few quick questions should help narrow it down.
- What distribution are you using?
- What version of X?
- Did you change the hostname during the upgrade?

I have Red Hat 6.2 and I am unsure of what version of X I am using... I did not change the hostname but I did find a way to solve the problem. I reinstalled Linux and chose not to "Skip X Configuration" this time. It worked. For some reason if you choose to "Skip X Configuration" in the GUI setup of Red Hat, regardless if you run "xf86config" after the install or not, you will get that error when you try to load X. That's what I was doing. Any idea why that little check would make a difference? Thanks for your help anyway!

It could be a myriad different things - gotta love GUI install/config utilites. A FEW things that could have gone wrong -
- It didn't put the X libraries in /etc/ld.so.conf
- It didn't configure X to accept connections from
localhost/your hostname
- I didn't even create the XF86Config file

The list goes on and on :) Glad you fot it working though. What do you think of Red Hat 6.2? (Follow up's should probably go in the disto forum).