Beehive and getting X to damn work!!

redgore · 05-26-2002, 11:40 AM

for some reason after installing beehive rebooting and setting up X I cant at all use startx !!! I know i have set it to be in my path in my /etc/ld.so.conf and by running ldconfig. Any ideas? What am i doing wrong?

trickykid · 05-26-2002, 11:51 AM

what is the error given when typing startx ?

redgore · 05-26-2002, 11:57 AM

startx not found!! Indicating it isnt in my path! yet its in ld.so.conf and ldconfig'd to be so

trickykid · 05-26-2002, 12:08 PM

Not sure about your particular distro but the actual startx command I believe usually resides in /usr/X11R6/bin/ .
Not at a Linux box at time so not totally for sure, but what does your ld.so.conf file look like if you can post it here ??

dorward · 05-26-2002, 12:14 PM

Try

Code:

which startx

and

Code:

whereis startx

and note that being in your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not the same as your $PATH

redgore · 05-26-2002, 12:18 PM

The startx command is where trickykid thinks it is!! which startx comes up with not found in /usr/bin ....... and all the usual stuff! I will copy my ld.so.conf file as soon as i can!! Dual booting so takes some time!

dorward · 05-26-2002, 12:57 PM

The ld.so.conf file is irrelevent to this case, it deals with your LIBRARY paths, not your EXECUTABLE paths.

Try

Code:

echo $PATH

Does the directory with "startx" appear in that list?

NSKL · 05-26-2002, 01:50 PM

Do the following: updatedb to update the file database, locate startx to find in exactly what place startx is found. Then add that path in which startx is to you $PATH not ld.so.conf cuz that deals only with libraries not binary files. Binary files myst be in your $PATH to see all directories currently in you $PATH do echo $PATH.
To add the directory with startx to your $PATH use export (read man export first!!)
Hope that helps
-NSKL

Config · 05-26-2002, 02:17 PM

You can edit the path variable in /etc/profile so it will always have the correct paths set at boot up

redgore · 05-26-2002, 03:17 PM

Thanx ppl. I need to install it again so ill set my path to include it when i do the install again (Lilo mucked up for some reason something about partition table?? prolly more fdisk than lilo)