Error starting X

em21701 · 04-01-2008, 06:38 PM

Just after my wacom initializes I get the following messages:

Code:

AUDIT: <Date time> :3242 X: client 1 rejected from local host (uid 1000)
No protocol specified

<repeat above 6 times>

..FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

giving up
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error.
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/eric/.Xauthority

after I startx I get a brief flash of the nvidia splash screen then black with the x cursor. I see the above messages after hitting ctrl-alt-backspace

it appears that there is some kind of error trying to find a font why would this make x server fail to start? how do I fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

blacky_5251 · 04-01-2008, 07:03 PM

Have you tried deleting the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

em21701 · 04-01-2008, 07:31 PM

I'm pretty sure deleting xorg.conf will not allow x to start at all.

em21701 · 04-01-2008, 07:41 PM

commenting out the offending font files in xorg.conf got me closer to booting. now I get:

Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
giving up.

blacky_5251 · 04-01-2008, 07:49 PM

I don't know Slackware at all, so you could be correct in your case. For Fedora and Red Hat, I think this is a standard trouble-shooting technique when X goes haywire.

Rename the file if you're concerned (good practice in any case).

willysr · 04-02-2008, 01:56 AM

or you can try to run xorgconfig to reconfigure your xorg.conf again

askalon9f2 · 04-02-2008, 03:15 AM

Perhaps you did this allready,
but the X.org logfiless might give you more (and detailed) info on the exact cause of the problem you're experiencing.

tdos20 · 04-02-2008, 06:35 AM

if you post the log files (/var/log/Xorg.log...) and your xorg.conf then it will be easier to see what the problem is.

em21701 · 04-02-2008, 07:10 AM

I'll do that tonight when I get home, thanks.

pdw_hu · 04-02-2008, 07:49 AM

For the font cursor issue: you need the font-cursor-misc (or font-misc-cursor, not sure) package installed.
For the xauth issue, check you premissions on ~/.Xauthority, or simply delete it and let X recreate it.

slackb0t · 04-02-2008, 08:12 AM

Quote:

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error.
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/eric/.Xauthority

The problem is not the font error. As stated above delete the .Xauthority file in your home director. You may need to delete it as root, I have had this happen before after an X server crash.

If you want you can back up xorg.conf and try xorgcfg << that seems to be the one that always works as is straight forward.

em21701 · 04-03-2008, 07:30 PM

Ok, here is where I am at:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't say anything that I haven't already posted. Since I can not get that machine onto the internet I won't be able to post it here. Should I check another log file?

I have deleted the .Xauthority file. I still, however, can not start x: it now exits with the following:

Code:

Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
giving up
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

running xorgconfig results in a lot of complaining about my monitor and video card (nVidia)

I'm reasonably sure that the proper cursor files and fonts are installed as this was a working system not that long ago.

Thank you all for you help so far, where do I go from here?

Eric

em21701 · 04-04-2008, 06:48 PM

Another update:
I have tried starting x as root and still get nowhere. I know that it is a bad practice to start the x server as root, but it needed to be tested. The machine is not attached to the internet anyway. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric

em21701 · 04-04-2008, 07:12 PM

SOLVED

The cursor problem was due to the font lines I had commented out of the xorg.conf file when I was trying to fix it on my own. The proper fix is as was suggested previously, remove all files with names starting with .Xauthority . Had I only done that my system would have restarted properly right away.

Thank you all for your help.

Eric