Fedora 10 startx not working

[dschiri1]

Well I screwed up fedora 10 somehow. I'm able to start in command line. but I can't get the X server to start up. This is what I get when I try to start X.

I start up in command line.
log in as root

type: startx

I get this error
[root@localhost /]# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2748

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2) no server"/usr/bin/X" in PATH

Use the -- option, or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path and
that "usr/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of server
for your display. Possible server names include:

Xorg Common X server for most display
xvfb Virtual frame buffer
Xfake kdrive-based virtual frame buffer
Xnest X server nested in a window on another X server
Xephyr kdrive-based nesed X server

giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error

[root@localhost /]#


Any body know how to fix this?

Best Regards

David

[sideways]

why are you trying to run startx from the command line, if you want a graphical session boot to the default runlevel 5 and login using gdm or kdm (or even xdm)

[kurtdriver]

Soory, David, I haven't a clue, but I can think of several reasons for booting to runlevel 3 and then occasionally start the gui. Good Luck, Kurt

[dschiri1]

Well something got screwed up and when I tried to start in runlevel 5 it just locked up. ie stopped booting at anacron. so I wanted to see what was causing the problem. I changed to runlevel 3. Started the machine and logged in as root. Then issued the startx command.

David

[sideways]

'gdm' is better than 'startx' but check /usr/bin/X actually exists, if not do 'yum reinstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg'

If it exists then there's something wrong with your root environment, check that 'echo $PATH' contains /usr/bin.

In older fedoras you used to be able to add 'reconfig' to the kernel line at grub boot which would reinstall root user, don't know if it still works in F10.

[dschiri1]

After I did a "yum reinstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg" it fix my problem. Thanks for the help sideways.

David