Re: startx fails

How can you say "everything was working fine"
and "I think I don't have the right video driver installed" in the same
paragraph?

I any event, your error message doesn't even slightly hint at a
misconfigured video driver.

There are so many obvious questions which you haven't answered, which you
could certainly have asked and answered for yourself had you tried the
teeniest bit. If you have at least made a reasonable try at solving this
yourself, then where is the description of what you tried, and what you saw?
Lacking those I have to assume you are guilty of asking everyone in the
world to tie your shoes for you.

For example:
Have you looked in the paths shown in the error message?
Are there files there?
Do they look the same as on other, working OSR5 boxes. (names, sizes, dates,
perms)
Did you tell the customer to take the tape from the nightly backup the
previous night and the oldest backup tape they have, and put them to the
side and not let them get overwritten with new backups?
Have you consulted those tapes for differences in the /usr/lib/X11 tree on
the tape vs on the disk?
Have you even run "man startx" ?
"man startx" on a osr5 box points to "man Xsco" which says "Errors are
logged in the file /usr/adm/X*msgs" which btw, you could also find without
man's help, because on a sco osr5 box /var/adm is where many things are
logged, and looking in that dir, X0msgs is certainly a file that looks like
it has to do with X. So, have you looked to see what is in /usr/adm/X0msgs?
Is there any X1msgs X2msgs ? generally there should only be one X0msgs, if
there are others, then you are starting up multiple x servers on multiple
consoles, which generally you don't want.
The rest of those man pages suggest other ways to diagnose it further too,
like running the X binary or the xinit program manually with extra options
to show you in more detail why it's failing.

If you have actually done any of that, then why didn't you say so, and say
what you found?

I think the real question is, who cares that X doesn't work on a SCO OSR5
box?
OSR5's X is terrible and I can't imagine too many people used it.
I always disabled it on all my (customers) boxes.

Back before apache, there was one reason to use X at the console, to
configure the netscape http server. That hasn't been relevant in years.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "willjay" <jim.highsmith@xxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
To: <distro@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: startx fails


On Dec 21, 3:52 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 20 Dec, 19:34, willjay <jim.highsm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Will someone please take a look at this and help me fix the fix font?
OSR 5.06
I get this message after trying startx at the # from the console"
failed to set default font path '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/
fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/
lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
giving up.
xinit: I/O error (errno 5): unable to connect to X server

waiting for X server to shut down .........

xinit: X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal.

Help appreciated.

wj

You're a bit short of data here. Did X *ever* work? Is this a clean
install, or one on which people have done lots of patches? I'm seeing
the results right now of a machine that's had patches and local
modifications randomly installed on it. If possible, you should be
able to rlogin or slogin into it (if you've installed OpenSSH!) and be
able to look at the system.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

This server has been up and working for many years, it has a
commercial version of ssh installed and everything was working fine,
then all of a sudden startx fails to start. You can ssh into it and
console text is working as well as everything else. I may not have the
proper video drive installed.


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