waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .

redhat_zephyr · 07-06-2003, 11:22 PM

Hello,

I have been trying to start up my X-windows. But everytime I run startx ,it just gives me a message "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections ." and hangs there. does anyone knows what is the problem ?

regards
marcus

zmedico · 07-07-2003, 01:04 AM

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org,

Did it work before? What distribution are you using? I guess redhat from your username.

Does it do that for all the users? You can see if any of your installed files are corrupted with "rpm -Va". Then reinstall any corrupted packages.

redhat_zephyr · 07-07-2003, 01:18 AM

Hello,

This is my first time setting up X-windows for redhat 7.2.
I don't understand why the X server doesn't connect. I have already set the DISPLAY variable to hostname:0.0.
There doesn't seems to have any problem with the packages.
Any other suggestions ?

regards

zmedico · 07-07-2003, 01:54 AM

My DISPLAY variable is just ":0.0". You can try "xhost +inet:hostname" to give access privileges to your hostname. Do you have a firewall (iptables or ipchains)?

redhat_zephyr · 07-07-2003, 02:09 AM

Hello,

I tried xhost +inet:hostname. But it gives me a warning "xhost: unable to open display "hostname:0.0". But I have already set the display variable.

I did not have a firewall.

This is the message I received.

waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
..

<I entered control-C here>
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unexpected signal 2

waiting for X server to shut down

regards

captainstorm · 07-07-2003, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by redhat_zephyr

But everytime I run startx ,it just gives me a message "waiting for X server to begin accepting connections ." and hangs there.
marcus [/B]

Did the system tell you something after a while or it always hang up there?

Qu Chen

redhat_zephyr · 07-07-2003, 02:37 AM

Hello,

do you have a xserverrc file under /etc/X11/xinit ?

regards

redhat_zephyr · 07-07-2003, 02:47 AM

Hello,

It always hangs down there. The two dots just increase by minute.For example.

waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
..
..
..
..

Unless I enter control-c, it will still carry on.

regards

captainstorm · 07-07-2003, 09:02 AM

I remember I got the same problems (I installed more than 10 times before I got something to work). I try to recall it....

Yeah, if I am right, I once got this problem since I "skipped" the X-Windows Configuration during RH7.1 installation.

I do not understand where is the problem, while I think a easier approch is to reinstall everything..., do not skip the X config

Qu Chen

zmedico · 07-07-2003, 02:00 PM

Maybe the problem is in /etc/X11/XF86Config

In redhat 7.3 there is a package called Xconfigurator that can help you configure X. It is accessible from /usr/sbin/setup or by calling /usr/X11R6/bin/Xconfigurator directly.

I'm using redhat 9 which has a graphical program called redhat-config-xfree86.

marcus_74 · 07-07-2003, 11:27 PM

Hello,

I did try using the X-configurator. But it always give me errors. Somehow the configurator did not configure the mouse protocol correctly. If I were to manually add in the protocol and run the config file. It will give me a black screen.

regards
marcus