[NTLUG:Discuss] Gnome won't start...

[Fred James]

(1) "xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session" produced the following error:
 >>
-XSERTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
-XSERTransSocketINETCreateListener: server already running
Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any Listening sockets - make sure an X server isn't 
already running
<<
probably because Xserver is already running.
(2) I got XFree86 4.2.0 from "ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0" 
and they didn't seem to have an RPM.

Questions:
(1) How do you stop the current Xserver?
(2) Is there an RPM available for XFree86 4.2.0 - I did a "google" on it 
and didn't turn up anything.

This is a new machine, and I can re-install without a lot of pain - if I 
knew what to put back, or alter, after the install of 4.2.0, I could try 
that too.


David Stanaway wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 18:37, Fred James wrote:
> 
>>New machine:
>>P4-2.0GHz with ATI Radeon 7500 (AGP) video card
>>Red Hat 7.2
>>
>>Installed binaries for XFree86 4.2.0, and can get a graphic login and 
>>some sort of "desktop" - looks like X-Windows by itself (no Gnome).
>>
> 
> Did you install the binaries from xfree86, or RPM's? 
> 
> If you installed them from xfree86, then they may have overwritten some
> configuration files that start your gnome-session.
> 
> Maybe, if you try from the console:
> 
> xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session
> 
> .. and if that works, make a file: ~/.xinitrc like this:
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/gnome-session
> 
> --
> David Stanaway
> 


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