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I see error messages on the text console when runnig startx.
Slackware 12.0 (GNU/linux kernel 2.6)
Hi: I am said slackware is very stable (I suppose this means it has few bugs). However, every time I run startx to start the graphical interface, for a brief moment I can see (just before the screen is put in graphical mode) a lot of error messages. How can this be? I use slack 12 a lot and have reinstalled this distro many times. However the described behavior always repeats. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading. |
It would help if you pasted the actual errors. Not all of us own crystal balls like Gandalf you know.. :)
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P.D.: besides, Shift+PgUp does not work in this case. That is, if go back to the console where I typed 'startx'. |
Hi,
What about the Xorg.log file? Any messages in there? Hope this helps. |
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Hi,
There's no /var/log/Xorg.log (or Xorg.0.log)? How about looking in the other log files...... or even looking at the output of dmesg. Hope this helps. |
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Yes. There is a /var/log/Xorg.0.log, although I see no error messages there. Well, maybe I am wrong and the are no error messages on the screen when starting X. |
Hi again,
Are you sure you are seeing error messages when X starts? There's always some text that is shown while X starts (most of which can be found in the Xorg.log file). Why are you thinking these are errors and not informational messages? Do you have any issue's once X is up and running? Hope this helps. |
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One issue is this: from time to time, I am in some internet page and a sign appears that says I need an activex control. I click, and a window entitled 'Plugin Finding Service', and subtitled 'Available plugin downloads' opens. It says 'The following plugins a available'. (Note: This is under KDE 3.5.7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2) Inside there is only one item: Adobe Flash Player (AFP)and I mark the box. Well; now the plugins are being installed. But then: 'No plugins were installed. Adobe Flash Player - Failed and a button labeled 'Manual install'. I click the button and find myself in the Adobe site (page). So here I can, at last, download AFP. I've done it a thousand times and, of course, I must compile and install. But to no use. Next time, I'm confronted with exactly the same problem. Whereas in Win*, everything goes smoothly. If any time I had to download AFP, I did once and for all. Well; now I think this has not anything to do with X server startup. I don't know. But as I have already written it down, here I'll leave it. Most obliged for you replies and regards. |
Hi,
The error messages you are talking about are not X related, but related to (some of the) programs running under X. Most of the errors that are generated by programs running under X log their erros to the console X is started from (that's why you see them the moment you stop X and return to the CLI prompt). I do believe the errors you are talking about are firefox (plugin) specific. I don't like and thus don't use Firefox and cannot help you there. I do have the same experience (way back...) you have: The "click here to install plugin Z" seldom worked. The only advise I can give is to install them manually (if at all possible). Installing Adobe flash should be possible (instructions can be found on the Adobe site). Hope this helps. |
Druuna:
I have found your post very useful. Thanks a lot and I hope to see you again in LQ. |
You're welcome :)
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Did you try for an error console on the other ttys by pressing <Ctrl<Alt><F1> to <F6>?
/edit: If it is a program under X there should be messages in /var/log/messages |
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Normally X will be running on tty7. To see the info/error messages you need to return to tty1 (assuming that is where you logged in).
Do this with the combination: <Alt> + <Ctl> + <F1> To return to X, use <Alt> + <F7>. |
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