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While installing vector linux 4.0 on my toshiba satellite 315cdt it gives an error during the xfree43 install. i didnt get a chance to write it down before it skipped past and finished the rest of the installation with out a problem. the computer booted up fine afterwards. when i try to run "startx" i get:
Host name look up failure
xauth: error while loading shared libraries: libXmuu.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
it then repeats that another 5 times.
after trying that i stuck the vector linux cd back in and tried to install the xfree43.bz2, it starts to tar it and then gives me this error:
bzip2: I/O or othererror, bailing out. possible reason follows.
bzip2: Input/output error
Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout)
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/lutRS18-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
obviously some thing in that package didnt work right for me. does any one know of another way i can try to get this working.
Standard: might try md5summing and re-downloading if you got a bad download.
Sounds like the archive's corrupt, which means it probably half-installed X - hence missing libs and whatnot. libXmuu is part of the XFree86 package so, if it ain't on there, X is not completely installed. And I dunno how old toshiba satellites are but might try what carlywarly says, as well.
Well it looks like the first problem was related to a curropted file. I redownloaded vl 4.0 last night and it installed fine. but i guess my video card isnt supported cause "statrx" still wont work (i would of posted the error message but i already started loading 3.2 on the computer). Thanks for the advise.
Just making sure - did you configure X? Because, 3.2 or 4.0, you'll probably need define your card and monitor and all. They may indeed not be supported, but X rarely works out of the box. To configure X, try 'xf86cfg -textmode' or whichever you'd like. I hear about those boxes around here all the time, so I know some folks have got some versions of them up - though if I hear about them all the time it must mean they have some trouble doing it.
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